Clerks Jay Quotes

Also, he detested people who bought fast horses that they were unskilled to ride. Furthermore, he detested: recreational sailing vessels; surveyors; cheaply made shoes; French (the language, the food, the populace); nervous clerks; tiny porcelain plates which broke in a man’s damned hand; poetry (but not songs!); the stooped backs of cowards; thieving sons of whores; a lying tongue; the sound of a violin; the army (any army); tulips (“onions with airs!”); blue jays; the drinking of coffee (“a damned, dirty Dutch habit!”);

During the war they was certain things you couldn’t buy unless you had the stamps in the ration books.” Aunt Lillian explained. “Like what?” “Shoes, sugar, meat, gasoline, all sorts of stuff like that.” Grandma said.  “When you went to the store, you had to take your ration books, and the store clerk’d take out stamps before you could buy things.” “You mean before you could buy shoes you had to have a stamp?” “That’s right.” Corie Mae patted Jay’s back. “Ever’ year before school started, we’d take all the kids to town to buy shoes. We had a stamp book for ever’ one of you.