The Heavenly Table Quotes

“He had never met anyone who played music for a living who wasn’t fucked-up in some sad or depraved way, the same as those who painted pictures or wrote books or traipsed about spouting lines on a stage from the latest melodrama. In his opinion, only the truly miserable were really any good at artistic endeavors of any kind.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table

“As far back as he could remember, there hadn’t been a day when he wasn’t yearning for something he didn’t have. And that wore a man down after so many years, fighting that feeling day after day without any letup. Why couldn’t he ever be satisfied?”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table

“It made no sense, the way Americans sometimes went bananas over certain people for absolutely no reason, as if they were just drawing names out of a hat.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table

“Well, brothers,” he said, “ain’t nothing ever gonna be the same now.” “That’s for goddamn sure,” said Chimney, then he gouged his horse in the flanks and the others followed.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table

“A man gets to thinkin’ he’s beat, he just as well hang it up. Besides, they’ll be enough of that doom and gloom shit when we’re dead.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table