23 Quotes by James T. Farrell

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

His face was a gaze of primal obtuseness.

There was a drugged sanctimoniousness about the sappy-looking birds seated in the lobby. Studs felt that there wasn't a man or a regular guy among them.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

He had a picture in his mind of Studs Lonigan courageously telling life and the world to stick itself up it's old tomato.

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

He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.

So long, Lee. Give our regards to the Kaiser. And tell him there's a few boys on 58th Street who'll throw a party for him if he'll drop around.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.