619 Quotes by Larry Brown

If you want to write, you’ve got to shut yourself up in a room and write.

Are you happy by yourself?” “I’m used to it,” he said. “That don’t mean I like it.

Don’t say what you would or wouldn’t do, honey. Cause one day you might have to.

I can understand why people jump off bridges.

That boy,” he said. “I’ve done him ever favor I could. Some folks you can’t do nothing with. Just sorry. God knows I’ve done plenty of drinking and stuff in my time, but I be damn if I ever tried to cheat anybody out of any money.

I only had one life, and I’d be damned if I’d live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already.

All we have to do as people is keep teaching children to read, and the rest will more than likely take care of itself.

Asking God to take her. How does anybody even know what God is? Other than love.

I’ve seen Jesus. He just looks like you and me. You could meet Him out on the street and you wouldn’t know Him. I know why He ain’t come back. The world would probably find some way to kill Him again.