James T. Farrell famous quotes

03-28-2025

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.
-- James T. Farrell
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
-- James T. Farrell

#Opposites #America #Said
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
-- James T. Farrell

#Writing #Men
Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.
-- James T. Farrell

#Sweet #Book #Long
In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.
-- James T. Farrell

#Growing Up #Father #Book
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
-- James T. Farrell

#Kind
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
-- James T. Farrell

#Winning #Media #Degrees
Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.
-- James T. Farrell

#Mother
Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.
-- James T. Farrell

#Book #Writing #People
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him.... Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.
-- James T. Farrell

#Lonely #Loneliness #Party

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