James Jones

Professions :

Born :

November 6, 1921

Died :

May 9, 1977

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

pessimist virtue would-be

The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.

self writing men

He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up your nerve to take yourself in hand. Then you took a deep breath and dove in and let yourself sink down it clear to the bottom. And after you had been down inside pain a while you found that like with cold water it was not nearly as cold as you had thought it was when your muscles were cringing themselves away from the outside edge of it as you moved around it trying to get up your nerve. He knew pain.

pain lying moving

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you al... by James Jones

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

illusion honest men

Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. Everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. Life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. Up to then he had been the young idealist. But he could not stay there. Not after the other people entered into it.

love-life men people

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the sou... by James Jones

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

littles world years

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

glances this-life eye

The fact that (Romo) went out there and talked about who the real Lopez Obrador was, was a major factor in getting a lot of the business leaders in Mexico to be either neutral or on his side.

Slim doesn't consider Lopez Obrador his ideal leader, and Lopez Obrador doesn't consider Slim his ideal businessperson.

I think the United States can show itself as a benevolent country by exporting energy and by helping countries that don’t have adequate supplies become more self-sufficient and less dependent and less threatened.

I wouldn't feel good about it at all, at the end of the day, I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

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Your security details will always want to have more security than you think is necessary, than you think is politically wise, so you make the decision on whether you want more or less and they have to abide by that decision.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

will love country people

I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.

feel style experience reading

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

others like think people

You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.

go you animal world

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