Richard Wilson

Quotes

1. I folded the paper and wriggled around in the seat. Buses are like candy bars, I thought. The price goes up and the size goes down. Each new bus seem to have less leg room and a lower headrest that its predecessor, so that you had to be a contortionist to take a nap.

   p. 48

2. 

   “What do you think of it, old man?”

   I thought very little of it but I pretended to turn it over in my mind. “It’s got class,” I said finally. To myself I thought, with a capital K.

   p. 79

3. 

   “‘Morning, Sam,” the coffee boy said. “How about some coffee?”

   “‘Morning, Herb,” I said. “That’s the first intelligent remark I’ve heard in some time.”

   p. 49

4. 

   “I’m good for about thirty bucks,” I said. “Then I’ll have to get a refill from petty cash.”

   “There’s nothing petty about cash,” Stew said.

   p. 51

5. 

   “I’ve made my choice, Sam,” she had written. “I had to choose between what I wanted and what I could get. There are times when the ideal is just too unattainable and when the second best becomes, in the long run, the best. Maybe this also has a universal application. I hope so.”

   p. 153

6. 

   We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

   p. 19

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