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Flannery O'Connor
“She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel.

"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

"Some fun!" Bobby Lee said.

"Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.”
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world. ”
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Flannery O'Connor
“Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.”
Flannery O'Connor

Thomas Pynchon
“Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?”
Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

Douglas Adams
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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