WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Barrett, James Lee – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Barrett, James Lee -- Shenandoah (1965) https://wist.info/barrett-james-lee/43259/ https://wist.info/barrett-james-lee/43259/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:21:55 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43259 CHARLIE ANDERSON: There’s some difference between lovin’ and likin’. When I married Jennie’s mother, I — I didn’t love her — I liked her — I liked her a lot. I liked Martha for at least three years after we were married and then one day it just dawned on me I loved her. I still do … still do. You see, Sam, when you love a woman without likin’ her, the night can be long and cold, and contempt comes up with the sun.


James Lee Barrett (1929–1989) American author, producer, screenwriter
Shenandoah (1965)

See Nietzsche. ]]> https://wist.info/barrett-james-lee/43259/feed/ 0 43259 Barrett, James Lee -- Shenandoah (1965) https://wist.info/barrett-james-lee/43363/ https://wist.info/barrett-james-lee/43363/#respond Wed, 23 Sep 2020 18:41:08 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43363 ANN ANDERSON: Here’s something else you must remember: husbands like to be alone once in awhile.
JENNIE ANDERSON: Why?
ANN ANDERSON: You never know why, but I can always tell when James wants to be alone. A mood comes over him. I can always see it in his eyes before it gets there. I don’t know where the mood comes from or why, but that’s when I leave him alone. It seems sometimes things get so fickle in a man that he comes to feel that everything is closing in on him — and that’s when he wants to be left alone. You understand, don’t you?
JENNIE ANDERSON: No!


James Lee Barrett (1929–1989) American author, producer, screenwriter
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CHARLIE ANDERSON: Now let me tell you something, Johnson, before you get on my wrong side. My corn I take serious because it’s my corn, and my potatoes and my tomatoes and fences I take note of because they’re mine. But this war is not mine and I take no note of it!


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