What have you done
What have you done when you have bested a fool? Charles Portis
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What have you done when you have bested a fool? Charles Portis
She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name … Read more
I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance. Charles Portis
Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a graphic writing style combined with educational aims. Charles Portis
The wicked flee when none pursueth. Charles Portis
If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time. Charles Portis
On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife’s religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need … Read more
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West. Charles Portis
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool? Charles Portis
As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone. Charles Portis