It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.
He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.
People cain’t help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don’t you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.
I just know there’s an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
No matter what you look like, there’s somebody who’s gonna think you’re the handsomest man in the world.
That’s what I’m living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.
One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don’t think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened.
Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I’m not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.
In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
It’s funny, when you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
It’s always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.
All right, then, I’d die for you. How about that? Don’t you think somebody could die for love?
If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can’t, then you must be a writer.