1951
“You got to bend with the wind or break. Don’t be such a monument.”
“What have you got in place of a conscience” Don’t answer, I know, a lawyer!”
“In America, everybody catches cold on Sunday.”
“There is only one real problem between a man and a woman, when one of them is in love and the other isn’t.”
“Plenty of good men have thought they was gonna do great things before the fight, but when the time comes, they skedaddle.”
“One doesn’t always have to say what one thinks.”
“A shot never did a Coke any harm.”
“We are a long way from being made in God’s image. But Stella, my sister, there’s been some progress since then. Some things such as art, as poetry, as music, in some kinds of people some tender feelings have had some little beginning that we have got to make grow and cling to and hold as our flag in this dark march towards whatever it is we’re approaching.”
“When I was 16, I made the discovery of love – all at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow.”
“A man don’t want anything they get too easy.”