Wise Blood
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He knew by the time he was twelve years old that he was going to be a preacher. Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he was not
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“But everything’s easier with a cat. He wants a little fish soup in a saucer and the occasional scratch on the head. I want the illusion that an animal bred to trade affection for food can understand the inquietudes of my soul.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
“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
“The tremendous bruising force of history, sometimes random, often without logic or resolution, may produce a work of fiction that leans for its effectiveness on structure and pattern, on a detailed unraveling of some old perplexity or anxiety, some lingering confusion out there, in three dimensions, where the blood is thick and real but the gunshots can go uncounted.”
― Libra
― Libra
“She was afraid he would turn into one of those men who make a saintliness of their resentment, shining through the years with a pure and tortured light.”
― Libra
― Libra
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