Charles Portis

Quotes

“I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?”
True Grit, Chapter 3
“I never seen anybody from Texas I couldn't shade. Get cross-ways of me, LaBoeuf, and you will think a thousand of brick has fell on you. You will wisht you had been at the Alamo with Travis.”
True Grit, Chapter 5
“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.”
True Grit, Chapter 5
“You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.”
True Grit, Chapter 3

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Books by Charles Portis in the order they were published, from Norwood (1966) to Charles Portis : Collected Works (2023).