6 Quotes by Jim Tully

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    A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages has sent poets, popes, kings and fools to the junk heap.

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    Plundering and stealing, cheating and lying, laboring, fighting and loving; taking all we could and returning little, we went our careless and irresponsible ways, with laughter in our hearts and sneers on our lips - as anti-social as hyenas who howled at the changes in the weather.

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    The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.

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    Long patience and application saturated with your heart’s blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.

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    Plundering and stealing, cheating and lying, laboring, fighting and loving; taking all we could and returning little, we went our careless and irresponsible ways, with laughter in our hearts and sneers on our lips – as anti-social as hyenas who howled at the changes in the weather.

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    Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

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