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"Maybe she would get a chance soon. Else what the hell good had it all been? It had to be some good if anything made sense. And it was too and it was too and it was tooand it was too. It was some good.
All right! O.K! Some good."

The undertaker had put rouge and lipstick on his face to make him look natural. But he didn’t look natural. He was very dead.

"Almighty Host! Utmost power of the universe! I have done those things which I ought not to have done and left undone those things which I ought to have done.
So this cannot truly be the end."

‘Listen here, white man. It seem to me like you meaning to get me into trouble.’
‘Trouble!’ Jake said rudely. ‘What in the name of Christ do you think you’re in now?’

"Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content? But he went onward."

"Attention!, he called. "We will save ourselves. But not by prayers of mourning. Not by indolence and strong dink. Not by the pleasures of the body or by ignorance. Not by submission and humbleness. But by pride. By dignity. By becoming hard and strong. We must build strength for our real purpose."

"My friend, did I ever tell you about Mr. Clark Patterson, the gentleman who owns the Sunny Dixie Show?
He's so fat he hasn't seen his privates for twenty years."

"You see, Bartholomew, that's why I got to be like I have blinders on all the time so as not to think backward or sideways. All I can let my mind stay on is going to work every day and fixing three meals here at home and Baby's career."

"Girls were scared a man would come out from somewhere and put his teapot in them like they was married."

"He wanted to go berserk. He wanted to get out and fight violently with someone in a crowded street."