James T Farrell Famous Quotes



There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.

"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true."

"If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you."


James T Farrell Quotations






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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
Sir George Savile

"America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."
Henry M Jackson

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P Adams

Well begun is half done.
Aristotle

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Irwin Edman

"M-O-T-H-E-RM is for the million things she gave me,O means only that she's growing old,T is for the tears she shed to save me,H is for her heart of purest goldE is for her eyes, with love-light shining,R means right, and right she'll always be,Put them all together, they spell MOTHER,A word that means the world to me."
Howard Johnson

"As thou hast sown, so shall thou reap."
Pinarius

"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
John Stuart Mill

None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow