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Sam Savage

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November 09, 1940 in The United States

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Literature & Fiction

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Sam Savage is a native of South Carolina now living in Madison, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor and doctoral degree from Yale University where he taught briefly, and has also worked as a bicycle mechanic, carpenter, commercial fisherman, and letterpress printer.

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Average rating: 3.39 · 1,978 ratings · 444 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage, Michael Mikolowski (Illustrator) 3.43 avg rating — 1,715 ratings — published 2006 — 33 editions	My rating:
	The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage, Michael Mikolowski (Illustrator) 3.15 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Glass 3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Criminal Life of Effie O 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	The Way of the Dog 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2013	My rating:

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Quotes by Sam Savage

“I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory”
― Sam Savage, Firmin

tags: forever , impermanence , last , life , memory

14 people liked it

“It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few. ”
― Sam Savage, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

tags: fantasy , novels , reading-grp

5 people liked it

“Unrequited love is bad, but unrequitable love can really get you down.”
― Sam Savage, Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

5 people liked it

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