I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.
I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay...
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like liste...
It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness,...
It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]
Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
he looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.
