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Category: James Purdy

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.

The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping who’s who straight. So don’t be surprised if they don’t remember who Cabot Wright is, or if they do.

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

dachshund, failure

Never deprecate another person’s sufferings even when imaginary.

compassion, suffering

He stood there, his eyes like they had been before. Their beauty stabbed at her heart like a great knife; the hair looked so like she had just pressed the wet comb to it and perhaps put a little pomade on the sides; and the small face was clean and sad. Yet her arms somehow did not ache to hold him like her heart told her they should. Something too far away and too strong was between her and him; she only saw him as she had always seen resurrection pictures, hidden from us as in a wonderful mist that will not let us see our love complete.

eyes, mothers-love

I have wrote my name in hell,” Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.

All you need do, Bernie,”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.

All you need do, Bernie,”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.