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“Hell, it took only your first day in a Montana flop or standing over your mother's unmarked grave to know that equal was the one thing all men were not. A few lived like kings, and the rest hugged the dirt until it cracked open and took them home.”
― The Cold Millions
― The Cold Millions
“There's something uncomfortable about looking at pictures of your parents at a time when they made each other happy.”
― The Hired Man
― The Hired Man
“You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.”
― Babayaga
― Babayaga
“It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“It was frightening, though, how little time you got. You only became yourself when you were twenty-three or twenty-four. A few years later, you had an old man's chest hair. It wasn't worth it.”
― Bullfighting: Stories
― Bullfighting: Stories
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