Quotes by James Sallis

About James Sallis:

James Sallis is an American crime writer, poet, critic, musicologist and musician, best known for his series of novels featuring the detective character Lew Griffin and set in New Orleans, and for his 2005 novel Drive, which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same name.
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Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?" "The company of a friend, I think." "Always a cheap treat.

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Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said. “Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

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What’d you need?" "Desuetude." "Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed to. As in something gets discontinued, falls into disuse." "Thanks, man." "That it?" "Yeah, but we should grab a drink sometime.

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We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.

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I was coming up on a cross street when a man wearing a filthy suit stepped out from around the corner of the building ahead and directly into my path. Bent with age, he turned bleak red eyes to me and stared. Pressed with his chest to both hands he c...

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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, consis...

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Perhaps after all, for all our talk of change, redemption or personal growth, for all our dependence on therapists, religious faith or mood-altering drugs both legal and non, we're doomed simply to go on repeating the same patterns over and over in o...

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Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

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Author Bio

  • NameJames Sallis
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornDecember 21, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Essayist; Poet; Translator; Journalist