But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
Charles PortisI know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.
Charles PortisIn the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.
Charles Portis