123 Quotes by James Jones

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden rebel base...

The Confederate flag stands for slavery and, more recently, segregation. Anyone who tries to separate them is not paying attention.

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours.

War don’t ennoble men, it turns ’em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

This great evil, where’s it come from? How’d it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doing this? Who’s killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might’ve known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?

Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.

Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where.

Some day... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.