Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
Tags: religion, judgement, hatred, god, bible

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I'm a slow worker; I'm, I think, a steady worker.
Tags: steady, i-think, slow, think
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Tags: books, joke, start, you
In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I'm concerned, that part is Greg's for life. I've had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I've always refused.
Tags: stage, always, man, life
The tradition of the South is not urban... I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.
Tags: pictures, think, tradition, dance
It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.
Tags: book, hands, never, death
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