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Top 8 Frederick Exley Quotes (2025 Update)

Frederick Exley Quote: “Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.”

1. “Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.”

— Frederick Exley

Frederick Exley Quote: “In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.”

2. “In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.”

— Frederick Exley

Frederick Exley Quote: “Whenever I think of the man I was in those days, cutting across the nat-cropped grass of the campus, burdened down by the weight of the books in which I sought the consolation of other men’s grief, and aburdened futher by the large weight of my own bitterness, the whole vision seems a nightmare. There were girls all about me, so near and yet so out of reach, a pastel nightmare of honey-blond, pink-lipped, golden-legged, lemon-sweatered girls.”

3. “Whenever I think of the man I was in those days, cutting across the nat-cropped grass of the campus, burdened down by the weight of the books in which I sought the consolation of other men’s grief, and aburdened futher by the large weight of my own bitterness, the whole vision seems a nightmare. There were girls all about me, so near and yet so out of reach, a pastel nightmare of honey-blond, pink-lipped, golden-legged, lemon-sweatered girls.”

— Frederick Exley

Frederick Exley Quote: “I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart – do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart – do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: “This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man.”

4. “I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart – do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart – do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: “This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man.”

— Frederick Exley

Frederick Exley Quote: “Whether or not I am a writer,” I wrote, “I have – and this is both my curse and my virtue – cultivated the instinct of one, an aversion for the herd, without, in my unhappy case, the ability to harness and articulate that aversion.”

5. “Whether or not I am a writer,” I wrote, “I have – and this is both my curse and my virtue – cultivated the instinct of one, an aversion for the herd, without, in my unhappy case, the ability to harness and articulate that aversion.”

— Frederick Exley

Frederick Exley Quote: “Listening now, it occured to me that I hadn’t come very far over the yars – no farther really than from one “gang bang” to another, save that I had learned, as B. had yet to learn, that tomorrow the pain would be even greater.”

6. “Listening now, it occured to me that I hadn’t come very far over the yars – no farther really than from one “gang bang” to another, save that I had learned, as B. had yet to learn, that tomorrow the pain would be even greater.”

— Frederick Exley

Frederick Exley Quote: “If it comes at all, Emerson has cautioned that one’s call might not come for years. If it doesn’t, he remarks it as only a reflection of the universe’s faith in one’s abstinence, nothing to move the heart to fret.”

7. “If it comes at all, Emerson has cautioned that one’s call might not come for years. If it doesn’t, he remarks it as only a reflection of the universe’s faith in one’s abstinence, nothing to move the heart to fret.”

— Frederick Exley

Frederick Exley Quote: “It was Owen who over the years kept bringing me back to life’s hard fact of famelessness. It was for this reason, as much as any other, that I had wanted to make the trip to Oneida to make my remembrances.”

8. “It was Owen who over the years kept bringing me back to life’s hard fact of famelessness. It was for this reason, as much as any other, that I had wanted to make the trip to Oneida to make my remembrances.”

— Frederick Exley

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