"Home is where you hang your hangover."

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Source : James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.165, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

James Crumley

#Hangover Quotes #Home Quotes

“When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.”
“But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.”
“I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.”
“Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of anxiety, excitement, or depression in terms of physiological factors involving levels of serotonin, adrenalin, or blood sugar. To say that the characterization of thinking has a normative function that is irreducible to neurophysiological processing is not to say that our extant classification of the forms of thinking is incorrigible.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain -- this is force.”
“To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.”
“Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.”
“Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.”

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