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The Big Clock QUOTES

The Big Clock QUOTES

1 " She was blond as hell, wearing a lot of black. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock

2 " The awfulness of Monday mornings is the world's greatest common denominator. To the millionaire and the coolie it is the same, because there can be nothing worse. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock

3 " The awfulness of Monday morning is the world's great common denominator. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock

4 " Character": Eccentric, impractical. A pronounced drunk. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock

5 " What we decided in this room, more than a million of our fellow-citizens would read three months from now, and what they read they would accept as final. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock

6 " I mean, well, really, it seems to me, when I think about it, sometimes, you were much happier, and so was I, when we had the roadhouse. Weren't we? For that matter, it was a lot more fun when you were a race-track detective. Heavens, even the all-night broadcasting job. It was crazy, but I liked it. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock

7 " Such was the headquarters of Janoth Enterprises. Bureaus in twenty-one large cities at home and twenty-five abroad fed this nerve-center daily and hourly. It was served by roving correspondents and by master scientists, scholars, technicians in every quarter of the world. It was an empire of intelligence. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock

8 " He threw the shot of whisky into his mouth and I don't believe the glass even touched his lips. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock

9 " I called up Georgette, and made a date to meet her for dinner that evening at the Van Barth. She sounded extra gay, though I couldn't imagine why. I was the only member of the family who knew what it meant to go all the way through life and come out of it alive. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock

10 " I sipped my own, knowing again that everything in the world was ashes. Cold, and spent, and not quite worth the effort. "

― Kenneth Fearing , The Big Clock