Mohlman Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Blue's way of death was fitting. He had been utterly corrupted by America, and I find it proper that his carotid artery should have been severed by flak from a jumbo-sized can of mentholated shave cream. Like James Joyce, who tried to bend and subjugate the ironmongery of the cosmos with words (wasn't it The Word Joyce was after?), Mr. Blue tried to undo the empyrean mysteries with Seedy and his red carpet, with his elevated alligator shoes, with the ardent push-ups he seemed so sure would make him outlast time's ravages, with his touching search for some golden pussy that would yield to his lips the elixir of eternal life. And like Joyce's Leopold Bloom, like Quixote, Mr. Blue had become the perennial mock-epic hero of his country, the salesman, the boomer who believed that at the end of his American sojourn of demeaning doorbell-ringing, of faking and fawning, he would come to the Ultimate Sale, conquer, and soar. — Frederick Exley

Why do people respect the package rather than the man? — Michel De Montaigne

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense. — Walker Percy

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas. — Janine Turner

Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that. — Thomas Jefferson

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves. — Taylor Caldwell

They probably don't even eat pizza without letting it cool off. It — Haruki Murakami

Concrete breathes sun's heat. — Cameron Conaway

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune. — Nicole Holofcener

This is my life, these are my songs, this is my time and I'm ready. — Brooke Hogan