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41 " The older you get the more you live in the past "
― Walter Mosley , The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
42 " Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192) "
― Walter Mosley , The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
43 " I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone. "
― Walter Mosley
44 " The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told. "
― Walter Mosley , This Year You Write Your Novel
45 " Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with "
46 " Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance. "
― Walter Mosley , When the Thrill Is Gone (Leonid McGill, #3)
47 " The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead... "
― Walter Mosley , Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
48 " If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. "
49 " I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world. "
― Walter Mosley , Known to Evil (Leonid McGill, #2)
50 " Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the roots of a tree. You don't know until you're ready to go that you can't move, that you would have to mutilate yourself in order to be free. That's the feeling. It doesn't last, at least it doesn't have to. But it holds on like a steel claw in your chest. Even if the tree dies, the roots cling to you. I've seen men and women give up everything for love that once was. "
― Walter Mosley , The Man in My Basement
51 " There are times in your life when things line up and Fate takes a hand in your future," Ptolemy remembered Coydog saying. "When that happens, you got to move quick and take advantage of the sitchiation or you'll never know what might have been.""How do I know when it's time to move quick?" L'il Pea asked."When somethin' big happens and then somethin' else come up. "
52 " Sometimes you might forget who you are and where, but that’s okay because there’s always somebody around that’s happy to remind you. "
― Walter Mosley , And Sometimes I Wonder About You (Leonid McGill #5)
53 " Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all. "
― Walter Mosley , Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore
54 " The government isn't real," he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. "I don't owe anything to anyone who in themselves are lies and liars. "
55 " When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand. "
56 " Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader. "
― Walter Mosley , The Tempest Tales
57 " A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is, are you on top of that trouble or not? "
58 " Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too. "
― Walter Mosley , A Red Death (Easy Rawlins #2)
59 " I'm sorry he's dead but I am happier, by far, that he lived. "
60 " Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford. "
― Walter Mosley , Little Green (Easy Rawlins, #12)