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About Robert Stone (novelist)
Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist.
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“This way madness lies.”
“Everyone loses everything in the end.”
“"Believe only what you know," he said.”
“"The Deep Six comes for all, babe, the rich man and Lazarus."”
“It's what you want, he told himself. Don't obsess over it. Do it.”
“"When you stir up the bottom you naturally bring up some big fish."”
“"Don't laugh at my fantasies," she said. "Not if you want to be in them."”
“"I know that in the United States people are what they choose to be," he said.”
“"If somebody ever tells you, Geraldine, that they need you, you tell them to buy a dog."”
“"You and I, my boy, compose a tiny island of sanity in what is otherwise a fucking nuthouse."”
“Discretion came hard to Lucas, who tended to think slowly and aloud, but it was time to try a little harder.”
“"Lately we seem to get into arguments about what the country's about."
"I thought that was the national pastime."
"It is," Ernest said.”
"I thought that was the national pastime."
"It is," Ernest said.”
“"Are we friends today?" she asked him.
"There's a level, Justin, on which we're always friends. Then there's a level on which we can't be."”
"There's a level, Justin, on which we're always friends. Then there's a level on which we can't be."”
“It brought him to a latticed gate over which a small, iron Christ stared down in wide-eyed rusty death from the gibbet of a green, oxidised cross.”
“"The thing to do with embarrassment," he told the young American couple who seemed determined to engage him, "is work it all the way to humiliation."”
About Robert Stone (novelist)
Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist.