Jim Tully > Quotes

“Plundering and stealing, cheating and lying, laboring, fighting and loving; taking all we could and returning little, we went our careless and irresponsible ways, with laughter in our hearts and sneers on our lips - as anti-social as hyenas who howled at the changes in the weather.”
― Jim Tully, Circus Parade

“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.”
― Jim Tully Beggars Abroad

“A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages has sent poets, popes, kings and fools to the junk heap.”
― Jim Tully, Circus Parade

“Across a chasm of years the outlines of even the most vivid life are blurred. But impressions gained as a youthful hobo are likely to endure until the rover has wandered the last road home.”
― Jim Tully, Beggars of Life