All the King's Men Quotes
Political novels, American novels
Top Quotes
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“The truth shall make you free.”
“[W]hatever you live is Life.”
“"It might have been all different, Jack."”
“It is human defect—to try to know oneself by the self of another.”
“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.”
“[F]or when you get in love you are made all over again.”
“[A]ll life is but the dark heave of blood and the twitch of the nerve.”
“An ambitious man is a man who wants other people to think he is great.”
“If the human race didn't remember anything it would be perfectly happy.”
“[Y]ou have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have to make it out of.”
“[T]he story of Willie Stark and the story of Jack Burden are, in one sense, one story.”
“For many cannot bear their eyes upon [Negroes], and enter into evil and cruel ways in their desperation.”
“It may be the reason they don't seem real to you is that you aren't very real yourself.”
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“You live with words a long time. Then all at once you are old, and there are the things and the words don't matter”
“A time comes when you think you cannot bear another thing, but it happens to you, and you can bear it.”
“I looked out the window and saw that it was going to be another day, and shaved, and dressed, and went down to get a cup of coffee.”
“To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, the day we went up it.”
“Nothing fazed him, not insult or anger or violence or getting his face beat into a hamburger. He was a true businessman. He knew the value of everything.”