Frederick Exley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.
-- Frederick Exley

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I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart--do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: "This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man.
-- Frederick Exley

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In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.
-- Frederick Exley

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
The fact that a player is very short of time is to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chungâ€™s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out againâ€¦in Messiaen, a feeling for the musicâ€™s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.
Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

Frederick Exley famous quotes

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