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"It looked like a fairy tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination of America and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity."

10/10 sentence

"If I had only wanted a hamburger that day, everything would have been completely different. There would be another person still living on the planet and talking about his dreams to me."

One small decision, something inconsequential can have such a profound impact on our lives

"They'd let him out of prison when he was twenty-one, with a baby face and an asshole three inches wide."

This was so out of pocket I was gasping for breath

"Needless to say, America has changed from those days of 1948. If you saw a twelve-year-old kid with a rifle standing in front of a filing station today, you'd call the National Guard and probably with good provocation. The kid would be standing in the middle of a pile of bodies."

This book was published in the 80's. Absolutely insane that America is still like this

"I looked for hamburger references in the bible."

How the hell did anybody think this kid was coping

"Looking back on it now, I guess I used the hamburger as a form of mental therapy to keep from going mad because what happened in the orchard was not the kind of thing that causes a child to have a positive outlook on life."

Strange coping mechanism but who am I to judge

"I have replayed that day over and over again in my mind like the editing of a movie where I am the producer, the director, the editor, scriptwriter, actors, music and everything."

I think a lot of people have been here but I can't imagine most people replaying the day you decide to buy bullets rather than a hamburger

I'm a bit gobsmacked. The story has not progressed how I anticipated at all and all these snippets into this man's life are both fascinating and harrowing

"My mother just barely tolerated my existence. She could take me or leave me. Once in a while she would go through short periods of intense affection towards me. It would always make me quite nervous and I was glad when she went back to just tolerating my existence."

Mother's are heckin weird

"For all practical purposes the War was over except that people were still getting killed every day until the War was actually over."

Some things unfortunately do not change

He called the night Watchman an old man and imagine my horror when he's only like 35

"So please accept my apology and be prepared for them to reappear on page 10."

I was so unprepared for the fourth wall to be broken

"I'm just waiting and this is as good a way to wait as any other way to wait because waiting's all the same anywait.'

What a horrific tongue twister for someone who stumbled over there words already

"I wish the bullet was back in its box with the other 49 brother and sister bullets and the box was safely on the shelf in the gunshop, and I had just walked by the shop on that rainy February afternoon and never gone inside."

"Still the taboo of suicide remains. We remain.
We remain and that seems the most cardinal of dictum. Each man suffers according to his own agility."

"Oh Richard tonight it's late and I weep for you as for my father, the both of you lost down the cyclone of silent self."

Humanity leaves me in awe at times, to love and admire someone you only know through their works and to feel an ache when they leave