Jim Tully famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.
-- Jim Tully

#Writing #Heart #Blood
The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.
-- Jim Tully

#Strong #Winter #Night
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.
-- Jim Tully

#Moon #Night #Men
Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.
-- Jim Tully

#Our World #Sin #Brutal

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.
In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.
In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.

Jim Tully famous quotes

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