Quotes
List here any quote, from Horace McCoy's book They Shoot Horses Don't They.
Quotes that inspire you, or give you a strong visual image, or maybe you just admire the author's use of words ..... poetic, lyrical, straightforward, cultural, etc ...
Let’s go sit and hate a bunch of people . . .
ReplyDeleteAs long as I’m a failure I’m jealous of anybody who’s a success.
ReplyDeleteThe coloring of the sun had shot up into some thin clouds, reddening them. Out there where the sun was sinking the ocean was very calm, not looking like an ocean at all. It was lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely. Several people were fishing off the pier, not paying any attention to the sunset. They were fools. ‘You need that sunset worse than you do fish,’ I told them in my mind.
ReplyDeleteThere is no new experience in life. Something may happen to you that you think has never happened before, that you think is brand new, but you are mistaken. You have only to see or smell or hear or feel a certain something and you will discover that this experience you thought was new has happened before.
ReplyDelete‘I’m tired of living and I’m afraid of dying.’ Gloria said.
ReplyDeleteIt was after two o’clock in the morning. The air was damp and thick and clean. It was so thick and clean I could feel my lungs biting it off in huge chunks.
ReplyDelete‘I bet you are glad to get that kind of air,’ I said to my lungs.