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Robert Stone Quotes

1937–2015 United States

Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist.

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"It's a Walt fucking Disney true life adventure, sweetheart," he told her. "That's all it is."

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

"Ladies and gentlemen," Holliwell declaimed, "esteemed colleagues." Who in hell, he wondered, are these people?

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

"If somebody ever tells you, Geraldine, that they need you, you tell them to buy a dog."

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

All anybody cares about in this fucking country, he thought, is money.

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

"When you stir up the bottom you naturally bring up some big fish."

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

"You goin' to get killed one time, you know that?"
"You don't never get out of this world alive."

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

"The Deep Six comes for all, babe, the rich man and Lazarus."

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

"You and I, my boy, compose a tiny island of sanity in what is otherwise a fucking nuthouse."

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

Discretion came hard to Lucas, who tended to think slowly and aloud, but it was time to try a little harder.

Damascus Gate (1998)

It brought him to a latticed gate over which a small, iron Christ stared down in wide-eyed rusty death from the gibbet of a green, oxidised cross.

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

And that was it, he thought. It was all a series of rooms one never found one's way out of. You had to be content with that, or die, or go completely crazy.

Damascus Gate (1998)

"Honey, this town has got just one principal industry where girls is concerned. They can call it what they like but it generally always ends you up in the same position."

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

It's what you want, he told himself. Don't obsess over it. Do it.

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

There were two hungers and an illusion of fulfilment.

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

"The thing to do with embarrassment," he told the young American couple who seemed determined to engage him, "is work it all the way to humiliation."

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

Everyone loses everything in the end.

Damascus Gate (1998)

With the thought came the recollection of a poem he had once heard read, about a mouse so frightened it went to the cat for love.

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

"Don't go alone to lonely places."

Damascus Gate (1998)

He thought she was a unicorn to be speared, penned, and adored. He wanted her white goodness, wanted a skin of it. He wanted to wash in it, to drink and drink and drink of it.

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

"Over and over our plans foundered on human nature. On the mediocrity of human nature that betrays its better self, its best ideals, that is unworthy of itself everywhere.
"Shocking, the mediocrity of everything - is it not?"

Damascus Gate (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Stone (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.