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We must each of us bear our own misfortunes. — Charles Portis

watching him cut for sign. — Charles Portis

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time. — Charles Portis

Charles Portis shows his mastery of place and the more complicated subtleties of time. — Donna Tartt

I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man. — Charles Portis

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. — Charles Portis

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance. — Charles Portis

There is nothing free except the Grace of God. — Charles Portis

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains. — Charles Portis

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it. — Charles Portis

Time just gets away from us. — Charles Portis

The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. — Charles Portis

Lucille Biggers Langford and Florence Mabry Whiteside. As the — Charles Portis

Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell! — Charles Portis

wind came up through the floor hole in such a way that the Heath wrappers were suspended behind my head in a noisy brown vortex — Charles Portis

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you. — Charles Portis

Nothing I like to do pays well. — Charles Portis

The wicked flee when none pursueth. — Charles Portis

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?"
"I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed. — Charles Portis

Do they pay you by the hour or what? Norwood said to the monocled peanut face. — Charles Portis

Lookin' back is a bad habit. — Charles Portis

Fill your hand, you son of a bitch! — Charles Portis

He drank even as he rode, which looked difficult. I cannot say it slowed him down any, but it did make him silly. Why do people wish to be silly? — Charles Portis

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference. — Charles Portis

I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful — Charles Portis

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night. — Charles Portis

That is the way of it. - Rooster Cogburn — Charles Portis

Who all is in there? Speak up and be quick about it!' 'A Methodist and a son a bitch! — Charles Portis

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers. — Charles Portis

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool? — Charles Portis

The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals. — Charles Portis

There is no knowing what is in a man's heart. — Charles Portis

You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say - today I will change the oil in my truck. — Charles Portis

Now I was surprised and light-headed, like a domestic fowl that finds itself able to fly over a low fence in a moment of terror. — Charles Portis

As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone. — Charles Portis

That's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man. — Charles Portis