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Top 15 Charles Jackson Quotes (2025 Update)

Charles Jackson Quote: “Delirium is a disease of the night.”

1. “Delirium is a disease of the night.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “He turned then to go on – and stopped dead in his tracks. Suddenly he had never felt so good and so foolish in his life. You God damned fool, he said to himself; if you’ve got enough curiosity and interest to know what’s in that book, then what the hell are you running away from?”

2. “He turned then to go on – and stopped dead in his tracks. Suddenly he had never felt so good and so foolish in his life. You God damned fool, he said to himself; if you’ve got enough curiosity and interest to know what’s in that book, then what the hell are you running away from?”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “If it wasn’t one thing it was another, and it never mattered which. Always something to run away from, no matter what, no matter why, as though you’d been born with a consciousness of guilt and would find that thing to feel guilty about regardless.”

3. “If it wasn’t one thing it was another, and it never mattered which. Always something to run away from, no matter what, no matter why, as though you’d been born with a consciousness of guilt and would find that thing to feel guilty about regardless.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “Control! Control, Mac,” he said. “There’s plenty of time.” He lifted his coat from the back of a chair. “All afternoon,” he added. “Time to go out and plenty of time to get back.”

4. “Control! Control, Mac,” he said. “There’s plenty of time.” He lifted his coat from the back of a chair. “All afternoon,” he added. “Time to go out and plenty of time to get back.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “If he wanted to drink himself to death it was nobody’s affair but his own; his life was his life to throw away, if that’s what he wanted; but – was that what he wanted? If so, why did he suffer remorse? Obviously there was the will in him to destroy himself; part of him was bent on self-destruction – he’d be the last to deny it. But obviously, too, part was not; part held back and expressed its disapproval in remorse and shame.”

5. “If he wanted to drink himself to death it was nobody’s affair but his own; his life was his life to throw away, if that’s what he wanted; but – was that what he wanted? If so, why did he suffer remorse? Obviously there was the will in him to destroy himself; part of him was bent on self-destruction – he’d be the last to deny it. But obviously, too, part was not; part held back and expressed its disapproval in remorse and shame.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “Fitzgerald never swerves by a hair from the one rule that any writer worth his salt will follow: Don’t write about anything you don’t know anything about. Class dismissed.”

6. “Fitzgerald never swerves by a hair from the one rule that any writer worth his salt will follow: Don’t write about anything you don’t know anything about. Class dismissed.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “The alcoholic, to get liquor, will do everything that the drug-addict will do to get drugs, everything but one: and that is murder. Cut off from drink, he’ll lie to get it, beg, plead, wheedle, borrow, steal, rob – all the crimes in the catalogue. But he won’t kill for it. That’s the difference between the drunk and the drug-addict. But the only one.”

7. “The alcoholic, to get liquor, will do everything that the drug-addict will do to get drugs, everything but one: and that is murder. Cut off from drink, he’ll lie to get it, beg, plead, wheedle, borrow, steal, rob – all the crimes in the catalogue. But he won’t kill for it. That’s the difference between the drunk and the drug-addict. But the only one.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “How often he had been dumbfounded – at first incredulous, then contemptuous – to hear someone say, after a night of drinking, “God, take it away, I don’t want to smell it, I don’t want to see it even, take it out of my sight!” – this at the very moment when he wanted and needed it most.”

8. “How often he had been dumbfounded – at first incredulous, then contemptuous – to hear someone say, after a night of drinking, “God, take it away, I don’t want to smell it, I don’t want to see it even, take it out of my sight!” – this at the very moment when he wanted and needed it most.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “Not on me you don’t!” He had a horror of the spinal puncture because when it had been used in the TB sanatorium as a means of anesthesia some years ago, a friend of his had been paralyzed by it; not temporarily, which had been the idea, but permanently.”

9. “Not on me you don’t!” He had a horror of the spinal puncture because when it had been used in the TB sanatorium as a means of anesthesia some years ago, a friend of his had been paralyzed by it; not temporarily, which had been the idea, but permanently.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “Who would believe that? Nobody. And wasn’t it just as well? Wasn’t it even more fun – weren’t you liked even more – if they sort of got the teasing impression that maybe the story was true and maybe it wasn’t? – if you left it up to them, like the author’s point in The Guardsman?”

10. “Who would believe that? Nobody. And wasn’t it just as well? Wasn’t it even more fun – weren’t you liked even more – if they sort of got the teasing impression that maybe the story was true and maybe it wasn’t? – if you left it up to them, like the author’s point in The Guardsman?”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “But he knew he wouldn’t.” How much it said, that line; how much it told about himself.”

11. “But he knew he wouldn’t.” How much it said, that line; how much it told about himself.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “The thing was over. He himself was back home in bed again and safe. God knows why or how but he had come through one more. No telling what might happen the next time but why worry about that? This one was over and nothing had happened at all. Why did they make such a fuss?”

12. “The thing was over. He himself was back home in bed again and safe. God knows why or how but he had come through one more. No telling what might happen the next time but why worry about that? This one was over and nothing had happened at all. Why did they make such a fuss?”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “When the drink was set before him, he felt better. He did not drink it immediately. Now that he had it, he did not need to.”

13. “When the drink was set before him, he felt better. He did not drink it immediately. Now that he had it, he did not need to.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “The answer was nowhere, the drink was everything. What a blessing the money in his pocket, he must get more, much more for the feast of drink ahead.”

14. “The answer was nowhere, the drink was everything. What a blessing the money in his pocket, he must get more, much more for the feast of drink ahead.”

— Charles Jackson

Charles Jackson Quote: “Suppose that lad – Suppose time could be all mixed up so that the child of twenty years ago could look into the bathroom mirror and see himself reflected at thirty-three, as he saw himself now. What would he think, that boy? Would he have accepted it – is this what he dreamed of becoming? Would he accept it for a moment?”

15. “Suppose that lad – Suppose time could be all mixed up so that the child of twenty years ago could look into the bathroom mirror and see himself reflected at thirty-three, as he saw himself now. What would he think, that boy? Would he have accepted it – is this what he dreamed of becoming? Would he accept it for a moment?”

— Charles Jackson

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