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"Try to remember this, men. The mark of a professional in any line of work - I mean any line of work - is that he can make difficult things look easy."
Young Hearts Crying (1984)
"I think you'll find ordinary people are nicer than you give them credit for being"
Young Hearts Crying (1984)
"Of course. And isn't that the worst kind of loss? When you don't even realise the value of something until you've thrown it away?"
Young Hearts Crying (1984)
exchanging agreeable remarks for no other purpose than to keep silence from closing in.
Young Hearts Crying (1984)
And from this distance they all did look like kids - boys and girls from far and wide with their cheap hand luggage and their Army duffel bags, brave entertainers who might travel for years before it occurred to them, or to most of them, that they weren't going anywhere.
Young Hearts Crying (1984)
"As my husband always used to say, who cares?"
"A lot of people care, Ann."
"Well, that's a nice thought, but try counting them up on your fingers. Name me four. Name me three."
Young Hearts Crying (1984)
"But this isn't a lecture course. The only way any of us can learn this craft is by saturating ourselves in examples of it, in and out of print, and then trying to put the best of what we've found into our own work."
Young Hearts Crying (1984)
"All I'm trying to say is that I'm afraid I got a kind of who-cares feeling out of this. Very strong writing, fine writing; still, the material kept making me think, Yeah, yeah, I get it, but who cares?"
Young Hearts Crying (1984)
"Yeah, well, sure, 'remarkably intelligent'. Look, baby, the world is crawling with these diamond-in-the-rough types, these salt-of-the-earth characters, and they're all remarkably intelligent. My God, I knew half-literate guys in the Army who could scare the shit out of you with their intelligence."
Young Hearts Crying (1984)