10 quotes
Max, you are a melodrama with no audience and a cast of one!
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
It’s an insane idea, yes, but hell, this is war. If insanity works, a general is duty-bound to use it.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
I went, shouted louder and louder, tried to clear my mind so that, when necessary, I could act without thinking, act like a soldier.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
Stephen knew I first served the Church by stocking reliquaries—transmuting unused bits of rotting paupers into the toes and teeth of saints.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
People will say bout anything. That don’t mean I have to believe it. What I see with my own eyes, that I believe.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
She didn’t look around as I slammed the front door and locked it, just like I promised I’d do—cept I was outside the door, on the porch, when I done it.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
Mr. Davis was a Senator, you know, before he became a professional Southerner, and a Senator can out-talk any man—can make you think a horse-chestnut is a chestnut horse.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
In everyone’s life there are crossroads, moments of decision, however insignificant. To spot the crucial moments in his life, and act, makes a great soldier. To spot the crucial moments on a larger scale, a grand scale—that’s the work of a general.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
I asked Formosus how his trial was proceeding thus far.
Less and less of God, and more and more of man
It is of God, as well, I replied. It is mad and pointless, and inefficient. It is godlike.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)
“I don’t allow officers to mince words with me, Colonel. You must speak freely and frankly.”
“General, they are ignoramuses.”
“I believe the phrase you were groping for, Colonel, is goddamn worthless ignoramuses, but you’re definitely on the right track.
Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)