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Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1) QUOTES

Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1) QUOTES

1 " The law is a flexible thing—on both sides of the line—influenced by circumstance, character, and, of course, wealth or lack of same. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

2 " A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn’t have done one thing to be proud of. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

3 " was born to be an investigator. For me it was like putting together a three-dimensional, naturalistic puzzle that in the end would be an exact representation of the real world. From the deep bottom "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

4 " Willa was wearing a blue dress reminding me of the femme fatale of one of my favorite novels. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

5 " I like the rules; following them proves to me that I’m a civilized man. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

6 " One thing I had learned in high school was that in sports you always had to move in a direction that your opponent did not expect. From Ping-Pong to prizefighting, the man with the unexpected moves was the player most likely to win. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

7 " When I was a kid,” I said, “I thought that if I worried about every way I could possibly die, then none of them would happen and I’d live forever. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

8 " That modern law in the United States was based on economic class and what the popular opinion classified as evil, "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

9 " I could imagine a life in a world maybe a hundred years from now where my ideas and some man’s might be the same. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

10 " Human connection only reminded me of what I could lose. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

11 " Anything one man does that another man understands can be defined as language "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

12 " Women didn’t necessarily need good men to excite them. What they needed, and most men needed too, was somebody who understood their desires and their fears—not necessarily in that order. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

13 " I like dogs. If some evolutionist had told me that men had descended from canines I would have believed her. All the brotherly passion, fang-baring hunt lust, and fear I feel on a daily basis I see in dogs. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

14 " America was changing at a snail’s pace in a high wind, but until that gastropod mollusk reached its destination I had a .45 in my pocket and eyes on all four corners at once. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

15 " A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn’t have done one thing to be proud of. "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)

16 " I liked meeting young black Republicans. It meant that some part of the younger generation was thinking. Who cared if they were wrong? "

― Walter Mosley , Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver #1)