Down the River Unto the Sea
Walter Mosley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
“The law is a flexible thing—on both sides of the line—influenced by circumstance, character, and, of course, wealth or lack of same.”
“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.”
“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”
“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.”
“Willa was wearing a blue dress reminding me of the femme fatale of one of my favorite novels.”
“That modern law in the United States was based on economic class and what the popular opinion classified as evil,”
“I liked meeting young black Republicans. It meant that some part of the younger generation was thinking. Who cared if they were wrong?”
“I like the rules; following them proves to me that I’m a civilized man.”
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