Top 100 Walter Tevis Quotes (2026 Update) [Page 3]

101. “Reading is too intimate,′ Spofforth said. ‘It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse you.”

— Walter Tevis

102. “You’ve got to get your ass moving, girl,” Jolene said. “You got to quit sitting in your own funk.”

— Walter Tevis

103. “Openings.” He did not look at her; he was watching the board. “Is it?” He shrugged. “The Queen’s Gambit.”

— Walter Tevis

104. “You Americans did not create that oil you used for your cars, your air conditioners, your lawn mowers, or for the plastic films you wrapped toys and pens and vegetables in. The oil was made by the world itself, when great ferns covered Texas and the Persian Gulf. It took millions of years to make it. You and the Arabs threw it away in a century.”

— Walter Tevis

105. “She had three thousand dollars in her savings account; she was no longer a virgin; and she knew how to drink.”

— Walter Tevis

106. “When they were gone Spofforth sat at his desk for a while, wondering about the news of the man who said he could read. He had heard of reading often enough when he was young, and knew that it had died out long before. He had seen books – very ancient things. There were still a few of them left undestroyed in the University Library.”

— Walter Tevis

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