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The way he mangled their grace, wit, and self-esteem was the single excitement of their days. Without the tension and drama he ignited, they might not have known what to do with themselves.
Ruth, began her days stunned into stillness by her husband’s contempt and ended them wholly animated by it.
I’m on the thin side of evil and trying not to break through.”
Sleeping with Hagar had made him generous.
Sleeping with fucking WHO now ??????
From the time he first saw her, when he was twelve and she was seventeen, he was deeply in love with her, alternately awkward and witty in her presence.
When he and she were WHAT NOW
I’ll remind her that we are cousins, he thought.
PLS DO
“How old are you, Freddie?” “Who knows? They made dirt in the morning and me that afternoon.”
it was more affliction than affection.
Then the baby became the nausea caused by the half ounce of castor oil Macon made her drink,
That’s so funny I was just reading about Mussolini murdering people with this
But if I’m caught I’ll just die earlier than I’m supposed to—not better than I’m supposed to. And how I die or when doesn’t interest me. What I die for does.
Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty percent of the useful work of the world.
his beige three-piece suit, his button-down light-blue shirt and black string tie, and his beautiful Florsheim shoes
…… want it
It was a good feeling to come into a strange town and find a stranger who knew your people.
Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on—can you hear me? Pass it on!”
Am I evil for hearing this in the bop it voice
I will walk every railroad tie from here to Cheyenne and back for this. But when the lovemaking came, he decided he would crawl.
Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that?
Macon Dead, Sing Byrd, Crowell Byrd, Pilate, Reba, Hagar, Magdalene, First Corinthians, Milkman, Guitar, Railroad Tommy, Hospital Tommy, Empire State (he just stood around and swayed), Small Boy, Sweet, Circe, Moon, Nero, Humpty-Dumpty, Blue Boy, Scandinavia, Quack-Quack, Jericho, Spoonbread, Ice Man, Dough Belly, Rocky River, Gray Eye, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo, Cool Breeze, Muddy Waters, Pinetop, Jelly Roll, Fats, Lead-belly, Bo Diddley, Cat-Iron, Peg-Leg, Son, Shortstuff, Smoky Babe, Funny Papa, Bukka, Pink, Bull Moose, B.B., T-Bone, Black Ace, Lemon, Washboard, Gatemouth, Cleanhead, Tampa Red,
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“I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ’em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.”
