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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith QUOTES

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith QUOTES

1 " Coitus is random, children are definite. "

― Thomas Keneally , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

2 " She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is a cave for me. "

― Thomas Keneally , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

3 " In the mind of a true snob there are certain limited criteria to denote the value of human existence. Jimmie's criteria were: home, hearth, wife, land. Those who possessed these had beatitude unchallengable. Other men had accidental, random life. Nothing better. "

― Thomas Keneally , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

4 " And with love, ambitions! "

― Thomas Keneally , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

5 " Lower ways of life give way to higher. "

― Thomas Keneally , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

6 " The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is. "

― Thomas Keneally , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

7 " She yawns for men and not with her mouth. She weeps for men and not with her eyes. She drinks men down, she is a cave for men. "

― Thomas Keneally , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

8 " Bejesus, ye're a fussy black. "

― Thomas Keneally , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith