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James Dickey Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“[indicating a junk car by a rural gas station] That's my '51 Dodge. No, that's my car! That's my car! Whooee! All my youth and passion... spent in that back seat. It's all gone, you see? It's all gone—rust and dust.”
— Bobby Trippe, Deliverance
Tagged: 51 dodge, Rust, Nostalgia
“Sheriff Bullard: Don't ever do nothin' like this again. Don't come back up here.

Bobby: You don't have to worry about that, Sheriff.”
— Sheriff Bullard, Deliverance
Tagged: promises, Threats
“Mountain Man: I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!

Bobby: Weee!

Mountain Man: Weeeeeeee!

Bobby: Weee!”
— Bobby Trippe, Deliverance
Tagged: male rape, squeal like a pig
“Bobby: We beat it, didn't we? Didn't we beat that?

Lewis: You don't beat it. You don't beat this river...”
— Bobby Trippe, Deliverance
Tagged: man against nature
“No matter what disasters may occur in other parts of the world... or whatever petty little problems arise in Atlanta... no one can find us up here. Good night, Lewis.”
— Ed Gentry, Deliverance
Tagged: Disasters, Safe, Atlanta
“Mountain Man: What do you want to do now?

Toothless Man: [grinning] He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he?

Mountain Man: That's the truth.

Toothless Man: [to Ed] You gonna do some prayin' for me, boy. And you better pray good.”
— Mountain Man, Deliverance
Tagged: Male on Male Rape, purty mouth, Pray, Terror, Rape
“You ever had your balls cut off you fucking ape?”
— Mountain Man, Deliverance
Tagged: balls, Castration, Fucking, Ape
“[Lewis and Ed take a wrong turn looking for the river]

First Griner: Where you goin' city boy?

Lewis: We'll find it. We'll find it.

Second Griner: It ain't nothin' but the biggest fuckin' river in the state.”
— Lewis Medlock, Deliverance
Tagged: Urban, Rural, city boy, River
“Do know what's gonna be here? Right here? A lake. As far as the eyes can see. Hundreds of feet deep. HUNDREDS of feet deep. Did you ever look out over a lake and think of somethin' buried underneath it? Buried underneath it. Well man, that's just about as buried as you can get.”
— James Dickey, Deliverance
Tagged: lake, buried, Industrialization
“Goddamn, you play a mean banjo.”
— Drew Ballinger, Deliverance
Tagged: banjo, Goddamn
“Lewis: Can that chubby boy handle himself?

Ed: Bobby? He's rather well thought of in his field, Lewis.

Lewis: Insurance? Shit. I never been insured in my life. I don't believe in insurance. There's no risk.”
— Lewis Medlock, Deliverance
Tagged: Insurance, Risk, chubby
“Talk about genetic deficiencies—isn't that pitiful?”
— Bobby Trippe, Deliverance
Tagged: genetic deficiencies, pitiful
“Night has fallen. And there's nothin' we can do about it.”
— Ed Gentry, Deliverance
Tagged: Night, helpless
“Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.”
— Lewis Medlock, Deliverance
Tagged: Lose Yourself, Ego
“Lewis: Now you listen, Ed. Damn it, we can get out of this thing, without any questions asked. We get connected up with that body, and the law, this thing's gonna be hangin' over us the rest of our lives. We've gotta get rid of that guy.

Drew: Just how're you gonna do that, Lewis? Where?

Lewis: Anywhere. Everywhere. Nowhere.”
— Lewis Medlock, Deliverance
Tagged: Murder, body disposal
“Lewis: You w- you wanna...you wanna talk about the vanishing wilderness?

Bobby: Lewis, listen—what are you so anxious about this?

Lewis: Because they're buildin' a dam across the Cahulawassee River; they're gonna flood a whole valley, Bobby, that's why. Dammit, they're drownin' a river; they're drownin' a river, man.”
— Lewis Medlock, Deliverance
Tagged: Wilderness, Development
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