Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by James Crumley

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

James Arthur Crumley was an American author. He was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His book The Last Good Kiss has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."

American - Author | October 12, 1939 - September 17, 2008

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Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.

James Crumley

I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.

James Crumley

I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times.

James Crumley

Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.

James Crumley

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

James Crumley

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

James Crumley

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

James Crumley

Home is where you hang your hangover.

James Crumley

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

James Crumley

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

James Crumley

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

James Crumley

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

James Crumley

I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

James Crumley