Jim Dodge > Quotes

“Let's get really fucked up and full of sentimental despair and then finally decide life, despite every heartbreak and anguished cry, is worth each pulse and breath.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“...I don't rightly know. It just ain't possible to explain some things, maybe even most things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it - take it for what it is, and get on with your getting." (91)”
― Jim Dodge, Fup

“Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“He wasn't the least bit disturbed that his intuition was wrong: intuition often missed, sometimes spectacularly, but when it connected it saved so much time that the spirit leaped forward ... and, of course, there was no use denying the basic human delight in being right the first time.”
― Jim Dodge, Fup

“The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“You desire to tame everything, but if you just stand still and feel for a moment you would know how everything yearns to be wild.”
― Jim Dodge, Fup

“I don't know a fucking thing. That must mean I'm finally sane and that's an excellent place to start going crazy again.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“I wanted someone to hold me close so I slide across and snuggled in tight and said, 'Hold me.' He did, and it was tender and truly sweet, but without a trace of that wild carnal edge you would have to cross if you want to get so close together you can't tell each other apart.

I pushed it. I said, 'I want to get closer. I want you to love who I am.' Love doesn't do much for the powers of explanation, but since Love has never asked for one itself, that seems fair enough.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“After lunch Tiny returned to his fence work while Granddaddy and Fup repaired to the porch to sip a little Death Whisper, be still, and generally consider the drift of things. (55)”
― Jim Dodge, Fup

“At the most marginal of opportunities, Jake was fond of telling anyone within earshot the three great secrets of how to proceed when you don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing. The secrets, in the order he invariably listed them, were intuition, reason, and desperation.”
― Jim Dodge, Fup

“Let's get really fucked up and full of sentimental despair and then finally decide life, despite every heartbreak and anguished cry, is worth each pulse and breath”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.”
― Jim Dodge, Fup

“you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing.”
― Jim Dodge, Fup

“Ölümü kaçıracak ve karşılığında fidye olarak zaman isteyecekti."

Çev. Ayşe Ünal”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“Fuck fashion in the face of need, and fuck it anyway just on good general principles.”
― Jim Dodge

“You desire to tame everything,but if you just stand still and feel for a moment you would know how everything yearns to be wild.”
― Jim Dodge

“you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.”
― Jim Dodge, Not Fade Away

“The Fourth Wiseman delivered his gift and slipped away.”
― Jim Dodge, Not Fade Away

“a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“L'austérité est une bonne arme contre ces moments de cafard qui changent ton âme en égout. Pour commencer, c'est toi qui reprends le contrôle, même s'il y'a des chances pour que ce ne soit que pure illusion. Ca aide au moins à limiter les dégâts, peut-être pas pour soi mais pour son entourage.”
― Jim Dodge, Not Fade Away

“Enter your wounds. Heal. Escape.
And when you get loose, come join me.
I'll meet you at Jim Bridger's grave as soon as you get there. We'll make music we can't hear alone, celebrate beauty yet to be born, take the devil by the horns and wrestle him to the ground.
We'll shoot for the stars, sweetheart.
We'll waltz in the moonlit cemetery like fallen Gods, stand revealed, naked as air, and kiss each other's scars.
Till then, my invisible friend, this is the Dream Joker bidding you his tenderest toodeloo.
Dream on."
Denis Joyner, AMO Mobile Radio DJ”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“The mind is a glass floor.
The mind is the spirit’s tear.
The mind is our prior and subsequent ghost.
The mind is the Bullion Express and the blood on the tracks.
The mind is a stone door.
The silver on the backs of mirrors.
The wave that defines the coast.
It’s what the drunk grave robbers couldn’t stuff in their sacks.
The mind is the sum of all and more.
The spasm between one and zero in the Calendar of Black-Hole Years.
The contract between the lash and the whipping post.
A quilt of dreams stitched with facts.
A meaningless argument among whores.
Rain that keeps falling when the sky clears.
A masquerade party, guest and host.
A candlelit landscape of puddled wax.
The mind is what thought is for.
The parking lot at the Mall of Fears.
The fire-pit for the piggy roast.
What the soul surrendered and won’t take back.
The mind is neither either nor or.
The real center of an empty sphere.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“Daniel Pearse was born on the rainy day of March 15, 1966. He didn't receive a middle name because his mother, Annalee Faro Pearse, was exhausted from coming up with a first and last — especially the last.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“Just as the terror is experienced as falling, the ecstasy is experienced as rising, soaring—but unchecked, it’s the same as falling. So watch for that moment when clarity swerves toward the ecstatic. Catch yourself and return as soon as possible. I mean immediately. The further you soar, the further you fall.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“I'm working on nerve alone now, out on the edges, looking for the centre”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

“Aucune drogue n'est plus puissante que le réel, m'avait dit un jour John Seasons, car le réel, malgré notre obstination arrogante, terrifiée et pleine d'espoir, n'a pas besoin de nos perceptions, tout juste de notre présence impuissante.”
― Jim Dodge, Not Fade Away

“Maybe I wanted to be crazy so I wouldn't have to go through the normal rationalizations and self-justifications of unfettered indulgence.”
― Jim Dodge

“I didn't get to be 99 years old by fool speculation," Granddaddy replied. "It's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.”
― Jim Dodge, Fup

“Drills and explosives did what Willie believed all technologies did: They killed feeling. By assassinating time and space under the guise of saving them, they keep people out of touch when the better state of being, according to Willie and others, is in touch. In his more delirious screeds, Willie claimed that industrialization was a Christian plot to destroy the pagan reflex between sensation and emotion.”
― Jim Dodge, Stone Junction: An Alchemical Pot-Boiler