There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity...You can smell it. It smells like death.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?--I wish I knew. . . . Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

Silence about a thing just magnifies it.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others, no sir.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

Death commences too early--almost before you're half acquainted with life--you meet the other.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

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