"Ironweed" Quotes
A former ballplayer turned homeless man confronts his haunting past in 1930s America.
fiction | 140 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
Fate is what you're called when you don't like your lot.
What's past is past, a done deal.
To be a bum, you need a passion.
People think I'm weak 'cause I'm gentle. They ain't weak. They're just too gentle. There's a difference.
When you're a drunk, you live in a world that's always being slightly rearranged.
I don't believe in inventing pain to keep oneself alive.
We change, but not till we're ready.
You can't help what's gone by. It's gone by, and you have to keep going.
A vision can be true, but there are many kinds of truth.
Ain't no place special to die. Mostly, folks die when they die.
