"If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time."

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Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.90, A&C Black

Charles Portis

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“A glance at Christ will save, but it is the gazing at Christ that sanctifies.”
“I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.”
“Only Dunlop has seen more rubber than I have”
“Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!”
“Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.”
“I have great faith in the jury system.”
“Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30â€”it doesn't sound so bad at that.”

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