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Quotes from A Hall of Mirrors — Robert Stone

1937–2015 United States

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9 quotes

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

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

"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)

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)

"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)

But you got to hang on, she thought. You got to hang on because if you lose hold you'll just break up and drift off and go washin' off the edge of this fuckin' world, you'll just melt down into a sprinkle of powder with nobody there, you'll be sawdust for them to sweep up or spit into.

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

"What's going on out there," Rheinhardt said, "is there are like a few billion people walking around and every one of them has a head with a lot of stuff going on in it."

A Hall of Mirrors (1966)

Attribution

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