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James Jones quotes: Is it not also a paradox that in our efforts to escape pain we all run immediately for salvation to human love where we find the greatest pain of all?

Is it not also a paradox that in our efforts to escape pain we all run immediately for salvation to human love where we find the greatest pain of all?

James Jones quotes: Homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.

Homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.

James Jones quotes: It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

James Jones quotes: Never put things off ... you will wake up and find them gone.

Never put things off ... you will wake up and find them gone.

James Jones quotes: Some day ... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

Some day ... as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

James Jones quotes: The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

James Jones quotes: Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

James Jones quotes: A man loves a thing. That don't mean it's gotta love him back.

A man loves a thing. That don't mean it's gotta love him back.

James Jones quotes: Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.

Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.

James Jones quotes: He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.

He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.

James Jones quotes: He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

James Jones quotes: War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

James Jones quotes: Being in love made you especially vulnerable.

Being in love made you especially vulnerable.

James Jones quotes: I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

James Jones quotes: It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

James Jones quotes: Love either starves to death and becomes a shadow, or else it dies young and remains a dream.

Love either starves to death and becomes a shadow, or else it dies young and remains a dream.

James Jones quotes: I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

James Jones quotes: I write to reach eternity

I write to reach eternity

James Jones quotes: That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

James Jones quotes: Every man has a right to kill himself.

Every man has a right to kill himself.

James Jones quotes: If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours

If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours

James Jones quotes: Old soldiers never die, they write novels.

Old soldiers never die, they write novels.

James Jones quotes: The quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.

The quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.

James Jones quotes: Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.

Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.