James Crumley Quotes

• Home is where you hang your hangover.

  James Crumley

  Hangover, Home, Architecture

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.165, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

  James Crumley

  Spring, Drinking, Heart

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.10, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

  James Crumley

  Reality, Two, Drunk

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.39, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.

  James Crumley

  Passion, Consideration

  James Crumley (2016). “The Wrong Case”, p.176, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times.

  James Crumley

  Girl, Hard Work, Men

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.40, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

  James Crumley

  Kings, And Love, Youth

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.63, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

  James Crumley

  Sound, Warfare, Modern Life

  FaceBook post by James Crumley from Mar 18, 2016

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• I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.

  James Crumley

  Done, Littles, Too Much

  James Crumley (2016). “Dancing Bear”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

  James Crumley

  Drunk, Cynical, Persons

  James Crumley (2016). “The Wrong Case”, p.37, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.

  James Crumley

  Dancing, Bears, Bartender

  "Dancing Bear".

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• ...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

  James Crumley

  Morning, Children, Rose

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Maybe I will go to Paris.
  Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never
  Go back to Texas again

  James Crumley

  Texas, Paris, Hell

  James Crumley (2016). “The Final Country”, p.322, Vintage

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• There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

  James Crumley

  Men, Law, Accounting

  James Crumley (2016). “The Wrong Case”, p.10, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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