“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.”
― I Love Dick
― I Love Dick
“no government is ever innocent enough or wise enough or just enough to lay claim to so absolute a power as death. (p. 21)”
― Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
― Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
“I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
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