Jack Cady Quotes (22 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

She was stating part of the problem. If ghosts are a metaphor for history, then belief is a leap into reality. If history is a metaphor for ghosts, matters get really serious.
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 148

“I now knew what it was, but just because you can name a thing does not mean you understand it.”

Jack Cady

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 145

“You can only picture the future based on what you know about the past. If history dies the future can only be hideous.”

Jack Cady

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 145

“I needed this the way guys in trenches need head lice.”

Jack Cady

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 144

“So what use are we? Burnside hopes to die exhausted in a cathouse, with the sweet-sweet taste of bourbon on his tongue. My own ambition is less raunchy. I want, at age ninety, to be gunned down while storming the Congress.”

Jack Cady

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 142

“The rules would seem to indicate, that if you start a war you really can’t complain when people drop bombs on you.”

Jack Cady

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 141

“I saw old-fashioned cities, quiet streets, small shops, colorful flags and ornaments and decorations—life before machine guns, before communism and capitalism and the ambitions of generals.”

Jack Cady

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 138

“Absolute Evil exists. As kids we geriatrics learned all about it, and no damn social worker had better come along and blame “evil” on “conditions.””

Jack Cady

Evil is a force in the universe, a force using any weakness it finds to do its dirt; and with Evil, Hell is just a sideline.
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 134

“Courage, combined with stupidity, does not make successful soldiers.”

Jack Cady

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 133

“Men build all kinds of worlds in order to defeat fear and loneliness.”

Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog

Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 502

“Her eyes held that long-distance prairie look, a look knowing wind and fire and hard times, stuff that either breaks people or leaves them wise.”

Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog

Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 495

“It’s no big job to fool yourself.”

Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog

Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 494

“Never confuse an idiot.”

Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog

Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 476

“All the mysteries of the world seem normal after dark. If imagination shows dead thumbs aching for a ride, those dead folk only prove the hot and spermy goodness of life.”

Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog

Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 469

“On top of the war talk, women were driving me crazy: the ones who said “no” and the ones who said “yes.””

Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog

It got downright mystifying just trying to figure out which was worse. At nineteen, it’s hard to know how to act.
Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 463