Charles Portis Quotes
Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.
You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.
My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.
I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.
You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.
It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.
Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.
You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.
The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.
Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell!
I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.
Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.
