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“Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.”
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“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down.”
― Lyrics, 1962-2001
― Lyrics, 1962-2001
“St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.”
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Megan’s 2025 Year in Books
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276 books
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617 books
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