“I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished . . . when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“ 'Legs are for men's pleasure, breasts are for babies'.' " - Lib McGovern”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“ 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' " - Lib McGovern”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“Out of death, life; an immutable truth”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County.
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“A man who has been shaken by a two-ton blockbuster has a frame of reference. He can equate the impact of an H-bomb with his own experience, even though the H-bomb blast is a million times more powerful than the shock he endured. To someone who has never felt a bomb, bomb is only a word. An H-bomb's fireball is something you see on television. It is not something that incinerates you to a cinder in the thousandth part of a second. So the H-bomb is beyond the imagination of all but a few Americans, while the British, Germans, and Japanese can comprehend it, if vaguely. And only the Japanese have personal understanding of atomic heat and radiation.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“Randy knew he wasn't an alcoholic because an alcoholic craved liquor. He never craved it. He just drank for pleasure and the most pleasurable of all drinks was the first one on a crisp winter morning. Besides, when you took it with coffee that made it part of breakfast, and therefore not so depraved.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“[He was disgusted] at the beasts who in callous cruelty had dragged down and maimed and destroyed the human dignity of this selfless man. Yet it was nothing new. It had been like this at some point in every civilization and on every continent. There were human jackals for every human disaster.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“Small nations, when treated as equals, become the firmest of allies.” It”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“With the use of the hydrogen bomb, the Christian era was dead, and with it must die the tradition of the Good Samaritan. And yet Randy stopped...The incident was important only because it was self-revelatory. Randy knew he would have to play by the old rules. He could not shuck his code, or sneak out of his era.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“He was tough as an antique ivory figurine, which has withstood the viscissitudes of centuries and can accept more.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“There’s an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“Now at this hour, when the cirrus clouds stretched like crimson ribbons high across the southwest sky, in such a hush that not even a playful eddy dared stir moss or palm fronds, the day died in calm and in beauty.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“Whatever it is out there, is better equipped than you are. It can see better and hear better and smell better. All you’re got on it is brains. Your only chance of getting it is”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man. He remembered words which for four months he had not heard, read, or uttered, the most beautiful words in the language - faith and hope.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“Our whole raison d’être was deterrent force. When you don’t deter them any longer, you lose.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“But he is dying faster than he should. The better a man is at business, the worse in retirement.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“You know how it is. When you’ve never been some place, you want to go.” Randy”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“He had a feel for it, the capacity to stir a headful of unrelated facts until they congealed into a pattern arrowing the future. Dutch”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“He knew he should not have spared time for tears, and would not, ever again.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“none of this talk. A week or so later, thinking about Mark’s words, Randy had decided to go into”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“Randy felt relieved. He looked out over the river, contemplating his ignorance of women and the peace of evening.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“Since The Day, he had lived in the imperative present, not daring to plan beyond the next meal or the next day. This bit of paper tacked on peeling white paint abruptly enlarged his perspective, as if, stumbling through a black tunnel, he saw, or thought he saw, a chink of light. If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“When you examined the facts judicially, and asked which would provide the greatest good for the greatest number, there could be only one answer.”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“There is a new crisis in the Middle East. A report from Beirut, via Cairo, says that Syrian tanks of the most modern Russian design have crossed the Jordanian frontier. This is undoubtedly a threat to Israel. At the same time Damascus charges that Turkish troops are mobilizing….” Florence”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
“noticed that it was a clear and beautiful spring day, a better day than yesterday. The spores of kindness, as well as faith, survived in this acid soil. Randy”
― Pat Frank, quote from Alas, Babylon
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Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date May 5, 1908
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“Mama sneered at them. “I know you and Clarice are friends, but you can’t tell me you don’t wanna slap the livin’ shit outta that mother of hers. Talk about somebody with her head stuffed way up her own ass. And that sister of hers is just as bad. As far back as I can remember, Beatrice and Gory been usin’ Jesus as an excuse to be bitches.” She wagged her finger at them and, like they could hear her, said, “That’s right, I said it!”
― Edward Kelsey Moore, quote from The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
“I am fascinated by the evolution of language, and how local versions diverge to become dialects like Cornish English and Geordie and then imperceptibly diverge further to become mutually unintelligible but obviously related languages like German and Dutch. The analogy to genetic evolution is close enough to be illuminating and misleading at the same time. When populations diverge to become species, the time of separation is defined as the moment when they can no longer interbreed. I suggest that two dialects should be deemed to reach the status of separate languages when they have diverged to an analogously critical point: the point where, if a native speaker of one attempts to speak the other it is taken as a compliment rather than as an insult.”
― Richard Dawkins, quote from An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
“God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke.”
― Jack London, quote from John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
“Victoria pushed it open the rest of the way and stepped inside. She left it open in case she needed to make a quick exit. The fact that she had to think about things like quick exits infuriated her.”
― Claire Legrand, quote from The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls
“Chopped up fairy wings, the heart of a narwhal taken during a lunar eclipse, spit from a consumptive.… Christ. Just drink it, will you?”
― Laura London, quote from The Windflower
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