61 Quotes by James Purdy

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

One fine day you’ve got to give your body to somebody, or turn into a fully-fledged zombie.

I don’t think of people as queer or straight,” the Doc said. “Not when you’re as old as I. And I don’t think God does either.”“I didn’t know you believed in God, Doc,” Vance said.

If you get lonesome enough, Carrie knew, you’ll even call the police.

Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads high.

Maureen had been born with the face of a gargoyle on the body of a sylph.

One morning while drinking coffee with Amos, Daniel Haws looked up suddenly, as if feeling the boy’s eyes on him, and said:“Tryin’ to burn holes starin’ like that?”“Guess I was just resting my eyes on you so as not to look at your wallpaper,” Amos gave a sour apology.Daniel closed the book he was reading, a volume of Rhodes’s history of the United States, and took a careful look at the kitchen wallpaper.“Yes,” he admitted, “that wallpaper is goddam ancient.

Ace sat down and inflated his cheeks like the wind gods in Italian paintings.