“It is absolutely vital that appropriate levels of intrusive micromanagement, divisive paranoia, bullying, and the threat of arbitrary punishments are maintained, so that we can truly re-create the folkways of the past. Also a propensity for calling meetings at regular, and indeed irregular, intervals.
Adam, and what is the end purpose of all this work we are seeing?
Uncharles, there is none. This is also believed to be historically authentic.”
― Service Model
Adam, and what is the end purpose of all this work we are seeing?
Uncharles, there is none. This is also believed to be historically authentic.”
― Service Model
“All reading, in short, is telepathy and all reading is time travel. It connects us to everyone and everywhere and every time and every imagined dream.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“Before long, he caught a hold of himself and concluded that nothing ever did happen again; to each was given days and chances which wouldn’t come back around. And wasn’t it sweet to be where you were and let it remind you of the past for once, despite the upset, instead of always looking on into the mechanics of the days and the trouble ahead, which might never come.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“Being Southern means carrying a responsibility to shake off the comforting blanket of myth and see ourselves clearly. I was bringing a child into this world, and into our long history of trying to do the right think while benefiting mightily from the wrong thing, and I wanted her to see it clearly without the nostalgia that so often softens my anger and desire to tear it down and build a new world in its place.”
― Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
― Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
“It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.’ ”
― The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
― The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
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