Damon Runyon Quotes

• I always claim the mission workers came out too early to catch any sinners on this part of Broadway. At such an hour the sinners are still in bed resting up from their sinning of the night before, so they will be in good shape for more sinning a little later on.

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• He is without strict doubt a Hoorah Henry, and he is generally figured as nothing but a lob as far as doing anything useful in this world is concerned.

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• I do not approve of guys using false pretences on dolls, except, of course, when nothing else will do.

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• ‘In fact,’ Sam the Gonoph says, ‘I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.’

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• The best thing to do right now is to throw a feed into her as the chances are that her stomach thinks her throat is cut.

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• Any time you see him he is generally by himself because being by himself is not apt to cost him anything.

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• ‘You are snatching a hard guy when you snatch Bookie Bob. A very hard guy, indeed. In fact,’ I say, ‘I hear the softest thing about him is his front teeth.’

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• Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

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• I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

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• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

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• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.

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• The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that’s how you bet.

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• You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

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• You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

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Damon Runyon (14)

Birth:	4th October, 1880
Death:	10th December, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player, Lobbyist, Soldier, Writer

About

Alfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and author. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted.

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