Quotes by : James Purdy

Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.

The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain....

If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will....

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.

My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but....

He’s America in action — opposed to quality.

Curt, my husband, is a writer, and he’ll never write again. That’s our funeral, as they say down....

He stood there, his eyes like they had been before. Their beauty stabbed at her heart like a great knife;....

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.