Jay McInerneyIt's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.
About This Quote
The idea of trust is like a game of chess. It is not always about who is cheating and who is being cheated. It’s more about how you play the game. And if someone knows that they are gonna be cheated, they shouldn’t bother playing at all.
Source: Story Of My Life
Some Similar Quotes
- It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
- If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.
- You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
- Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.
More Quotes By Jay McInerney
- The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
- Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
- It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.
- You never stopped thinking of yourself as a writer biding his time in the Department of Factual Verification. But between the job and the life there wasn't much time left over for emotion recollected in tranquillity.
- Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.