Horace McCoy

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

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  • fivehas quoted10 years ago
    Goodbye (1948), and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935), which was made into a film. He died in 1955.
    Praise for Horace
  • fivehas quoted10 years ago
    . During his lifetime he travelled all over the US as a salesman and taxi-driver, and his varied career included reporting and sports editing, acting as bodyguard to a politician, doubling for a wrestler, and writing for films and magazines.
  • Sasha Freyhas quoted9 years ago
    I heard Gloria hollering. You see how those things happen?
    So we walked
  • b2208081693has quoted10 years ago
    I couldn’t get inside, so I hung around the front until noon when one of his assistants came out for lunch. I caught up with him and asked what was the chance to get some atmosphere.
    ‘None,’ he said, telling me that von Sternberg was very careful about his atmospheric people.
  • b2208081693has quoted10 years ago
    He was as wrong as a man can be.
  • b2208081693has quoted10 years ago
    I didn’t have a leg to stand on.
  • b2208081693has quoted10 years ago
    I can tell by the look of him that he is going to be glad to say it
  • b2208081693has quoted10 years ago
    I wasn’t feeling very good;
  • b2208081693has quoted10 years ago
    Everything was as plain as day.
  • Mykhailo Osipovhas quoted10 years ago
    the kind of apocalyptic detail that both he and Nathanael West saw in life as lived on the Hollywood fringe’ New Y
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