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Quotes from A Flag for Sunrise — Robert Stone

1937–2015 United States

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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)

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

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

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)

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)

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)

"We have a proverb, sir, in my grandfather's country. In his island. I'm positive they have the same proverb in China. It goes 'To trust is good. Not to trust is better.' "

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

In all the working systems, she thought, the weakness was always yourself - that spot of gristle in the gears. It applied on every level - even the act of getting through a day could be performed with gusto and dispatch if you kept out of your own way. Justin believed that she knew as much as anyone about self-struggle.

A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

Attribution

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