💬 Quotes

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day."

"Life, what is it but a dream?"

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."

"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place."

"I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads... every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it."

"An’ live off the fatta the lan’."

"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you."

"Whatever we ain't got, that's what you want. God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule."

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been."

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."

"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You are not the contents of your wallet."

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."