Quotes by Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

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You can deny him, he thought, watching his father across the table. You can hate him, love him, pity him, never speak to — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Why?' He kept asking in his sweetly belling voice, its tone as pure as marbles swirled around a crystal pail. Why him wu — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard tr — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
...he wonders by what process virtually any discussion about the war seems to profane these ultimate matters of life and — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life. — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
It has been a frustrating game thus far and [the natives] blow off steam by spending money. Happily there is retail at e — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
America loves to pray, God knows. America prays and prays and prays, it is the land of unchained prayer, and all this ce — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
No it was my choice. It's what I wanted to do. And I knew they'd probably send me to Iraq. It's not like anybody lied to — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Americans are children who must go somewhere else to grow up, and sometimes die. — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy tries to imagine the vast systems that support these athletes. They are among the best-cared for creatures in the — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
[Norm said,] 'To all those who argue this war is a mistake, I'd like to point out that we've removed from power one of h — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
At the door to the locker room Dime asks [Ennis] to autograph his ball. Ennis rears back. He's chuckling but his eyes ar — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
It was the sixties, exactly, all we wanted to do was to smoke a lot of dope and ball a lot of chicks. Vietnam, excuse me — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
But I am scared. Everybody's scared.""You know what I mean, like scared scared. Like coward scared, like if you never we — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
He decides he wants both more or less. He’d like to hang with Beyonce in a nice way, get to know her by doing small plea — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace. — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, me — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp e — Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk