Gamekeepers Club Quotes & Sayings

I don't think she [Mother] likes doing the laundry," I said. It was actually the first time in my life that I'd really thought about it - about what she did once a week, every week, all our lives. I suddenly felt very sorry for her. At the same time, I wondered what it would be like to never again have clean clothes. — Don Lemna

Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world. — Martin Amis

Standing directly in front of my desk, he peers down at me as I slowly raise my head, meeting his focused eyes. Suddenly, I can't feel my lips — Kelly Stevenson

The first thing is to raise hell," says I. "That's always the first thing to do when you're faced with an injustice and you feel powerless. That's what I do in my fight for the working class. — Mary Harris Jones

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles? — Frank Shorter

But part of that incipient racism had always led whites to assume the leadership positions and perpetuated the view that whites rather than blacks were the heroes of the movement. — John Howard Griffin

My only sin in this world has been that I have been truthful and honest and God has blessed me for this earthly sin. — Amit Abraham

Denial was not just a river in Egypt. — Darynda Jones

But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. — Herman Melville

Jabbo and Bungalow came in out of the weather in a bathless reek of cold wool and splo whiskey. — Cormac McCarthy

Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke. — Neil Gaiman

daily visual reminder of the depths drink sunk him to, so Mrs. O. had gone around with her nose bent over flat against her left cheek - Bud O.'d tagged her with a left cross - until U.H.I.D. referred her to Al-Anon, which — David Foster Wallace

He must prove himself strong enough to protect her, gentle enough to win her heart, and worthy of the great gift of her love and her unconditional trust. She must find the courage to embrace the darkest shadows of his soul, and the even greater courage to bare the shadows of her own soul to him. When all barriers are sundered, all secrets revealed and accepted, she can complete the bond; and they will no longer be two separate people, but rather one person, one soul, complete for eternity, stronger together than either could ever be apart. — C.L. Wilson