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“They had a sweety-sweet picture of Jesus over the choir booths that I didn't like at all. Jesus looked like he was a Boy Scout, waiting to get his twenty-first merit badge from the head Scout Master.”
― Horseman, Pass By
― Horseman, Pass By
“Dallas is small enough: Highland Park is like living in a retirement home when it comes to knowing what everyone is doing.”
― The Highland Park Woman: A Collection of Short Stories
― The Highland Park Woman: A Collection of Short Stories
“Three nights at the Hotel zum Storchen --- a decent hotel", Farrokh explained. "Your room overlooks the Limmat. You can walk in the old town, or to the lake. Have you ever been in Europe?”
― A Son of the Circus
― A Son of the Circus
“It’s almost impossible to save, really save, anything. If she didn’t have her trust fund, small though it is, well, they might be peering over the edge the way some couples their age were. Thank God for that quarterly check. And thank God for Daddy, even if he was a lush and spent more nights in bed with prostitutes than with mother. According to mother.”
― The Highland Park Woman: A Collection of Short Stories
― The Highland Park Woman: A Collection of Short Stories
“Hell, you ought to go see a doctor, Dad," I told him. "You probably just need some kind of pep-up medicine. Why do you want to be so contrary?" "I ain't contrary," he said. "I just don't want to pay no doctor to tell me what I already know. There ain't no medicine for old age." "You're just tight," I said. "You ought not to let a few dollars stand between you and your health." "I am tight," he said. "I'm rich, too." "You don't live like it," I said. "No, because I want to stay rich. The best way in the world to get poor is to start living rich.”
― Leaving Cheyenne
― Leaving Cheyenne
Dead End Follies
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Lush, drunk, and pissed
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A group for all who likes the sauce. Drink recipes, drinking stories. And stupid bar jokes (nod to George Fogg).
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