Arvin Quotes & Sayings

I'm not you, Douglas. I don't look at every keyhole as a possible future sex partner. — Eric Arvin

It's your boy," she said. "Somebody done killed your boy." I heard Leroy's deep sobs coming from inside the house, and I saw Jimmy lose his breath. Just for a moment, I wanted to be alive again. They had loved me. I had been loved in this old world, and now love was tearing them apart. — Eric Arvin

You beat death, Arvin. But you couldn't beat me. — J.J. Abrams

They's a lot of no-good sonofabitches out there."
Arvin asks, "More than a hundred?"
Willard laughed a little and put the truck in gear. "Yeah, at least that many. — Donald Ray Pollock

plate stacked high with chocolate waffles (slutty pancakes, he called them). — Eric Arvin

I do a lot of talking, playing with the audience, but I don't really know what that's going to be. Somebody kind of feeds me cold. He gives me these kind of cold games that I play with the audience or quizzes that I do with them. — Jeff Goldblum

Oh wouldn't that twist your twat if that turned out to be true! — Eric Arvin

Tony rolled his green eyes — Eric Arvin

Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end. — Newton Arvin

Human evil is a collapse of the moral faculty, but not an operating pursuing of the wrong. — Arvin Adriyan

If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the stuff, but because the stuff is allowed to render up its own poetic essences. — Newton Arvin

Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time. — Donald Ray Pollock

FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves. — Anuj

Then, there was a sudden, sharp pain in the bum and everything went dizzy, then dark. A poison peppermint dart had been shot into his muscular buttocks from afar. Later, in recollection, Kid Christmas had to admit that bending over to lick the lollipop fence post with his musculus bumulus high in the air was an easy red target, something very hard to miss. — Eric Arvin

That's how the world gets you. It keeps going round until you're too dizzy to care or even think. — Eric Arvin

Lou reluctantly drew back, still holding Joe, and placed his soft lips on Joe's own. Existence reacted to their reunion. Immediately, it was as if two halves became whole once again. The sky flashed colors overhead as they stood together: day to night, night to day. They stood motionless and kissing for so long a period that they might have been mistaken for part of the landscape, as vines climbed up their legs and grass grew around them; as dirt gathered and buried even more the scattered fragments of the abbey. Only the keepers of time knew that lifetimes did indeed pass, possibly entire eras. And yet it was but a scant moment to Joe and Lou. All of it but a simple, longed-for embrace neither time nor death could contain. — Eric Arvin

Yea, God is a great deal more angry with great numbers that are now on earth, yea, doubtless, with many that are now in this congregation, that, it may be, are at ease and quiet, than he is with many of those that are now in the flames of hell. So — Jonathan Edwards

Great courage, Joe. — Eric Arvin

For what's a writer without longing? — Eric Arvin

Squee-squee-squawky-squiggly-squee. — Eric Arvin

You gotta know it before you move on. You gotta recognize yourself. Understand the lessons. If you cain't make no sense of it, well then, what use was it? — Eric Arvin

We would do much better as leaders in the Church to learn at the feet of the farmer rather than study with the CEO of a corporation. — Neil Cole

He faced Doug. His eyes were wet. "I am not one of your tricks, Douglas."
"Of course, you're not."
"That's what I feel like tonight, seeing you in there with all those bodies. One of a thousand nights. One of a thousand fucks. And fuck you for making me feel this way. And fuck you again for making me say fuck in this beautiful place. — Eric Arvin

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. — Debbie Harry

Jerry read for a good hour before he couldn't take any more of the graphic heterosexual love scenes. "Some — Eric Arvin

She nodded her head in approval and hesitantly shut the book, breathing a reader's sigh. That wonderful inhale/exhale reaction one does after finishing a book that has somehow touched you. Completion. Inner peace. Separate peace. — Eric Arvin

The longest piece of literature I've read lately was a tattoo on this biker I picked up last night. It said, If you're this close, you've gotta suck it. — Eric Arvin

Gay angels are all the rage in heaven. — Eric Arvin

Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn't love him. Not because he was a beast or white - I couldn't love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn't feel it. — Eduardo C. Corral