But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn’t racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.
“I am a jug filled with water both magic and plain; I have only to lean over and a stream of beautiful thoughts flows out of me.”
― Too Loud a Solitude
― Too Loud a Solitude
“Writing was bad for the soul when you got right down to it. It protected your worst tendencies. Narrowed everything to failure and its devastations. Gave your cunning an edge of treachery and your jellyfish heart a reason to fall deeper into silence.”
― Mao II
― Mao II
“A graveyard of gods spreads out before us as we sit on our high seats and look out over the sands of time, littered with the half-sunk and crumbling visages of every Odin and Ozymandias.”
― Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods
― Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods
“His black hat sat on his head with a careful, placed expression and his face had a fragile look as if it might have been broken and stuck together again, or like a gun no one knows is loaded.”
― Wise Blood
― Wise Blood
“There is much here that is holy, an aberration in the heartland of the real.”
― Libra
― Libra
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 324277 members
— last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
On the Southern Literary Trail
— 2203 members
— last activity 14 minutes ago
Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more
Frank’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frank’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Frank
Lists liked by Frank






































