James Sallis Quotes

• He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.

  James Sallis

  Sight, Cities, Two

  James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.20, Oldcastle Books

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• Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

  James Sallis

  Laughing, Able, Messages

  James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.27, Oldcastle Books

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• Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

  James Sallis

  Running, Memories, Motivation

  James Sallis (2012). “Black Hornet”, p.13, Oldcastle Books

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• Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

  James Sallis

  Truth Is, Courses, Relative

  James Sallis (2012). “The Killer is Dying”, p.21, Oldcastle Books

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• Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

  James Sallis

  Fall, Civilization, Two

  James Sallis (2011). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.80, Oldcastle Books

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• The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

  James Sallis

  Nature, Children, Preschool

  "No Child Left Inside" by Isabel Cowles, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

  James Sallis

  Cutting, Men, Crime Novels

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• In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.

  James Sallis

  Morning, Memories, Regret

  James Sallis (2012). “The Long-Legged Fly”, p.136, Oldcastle Books

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• What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a right way, a wrong way, and my way.' You want to see how that looks on the page, pick up any of Craig McDonald's novels. He's built him a nice little shack out there way off all the reg'lar roads, and he's brewing some fine, heady stuff. Leave your money under the rock and come back in an hour.

  James Sallis

  Nice, Rocks, Mcdonalds

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• Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

  James Sallis

  Doe

  James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.65, Oldcastle Books

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