James Jones

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1921-11-06

Quotes by James Jones

• Warden had a theory about women: For years he had been asking them to sleep with him, the ones that interested him. Will you go to bed with me? and they were always shocked, even the rummy barflies. Of course, they always did, but that was only later, after he had fulfilled the proper requirements of approach. No woman ever said, Why, yes, I'd like to go to bed with you. They couldn't do it. It wasnt in them to be that honest.

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• Warden had a theory about women: For years he had been asking them to sleep with him, the ones that interested him. Will you go to bed with me? and they were always shocked, even the rummy barflies. Of course, they always did, but that was only later, after he had fulfilled the proper requirements of approach. No woman ever said, Why, yes, I'd like to go to bed with you. They couldn't do it. It wasnt in them to be that honest.

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• Manhood is the ability to outlast despair.

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• There's a French story that tells how God created the world, and there was no place perfect on it, so he created France. And then he looked at it and said, This is too good for humanity, so he created Frenchmen to live in it.

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