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1. "When you first heard him talking about it, you'd figure he was batshit crazy, but really, he was just trying to fill up his days so he didn't have to think about what a fucking mess he had made of everything. It's the same for most of us; forgetting our lives might be the best we'll ever do." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
2. "I don't know,' Del said. 'I read this book. I guess you could say we were looking for a better life.''Did you find it?' the Fish Stick Girl asked.'No, it was just a goddamn book. I ain't read one since." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
3. "Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
4. "Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
5. "He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
6. "It's hard to live a good life...It seems like the Devil don't ever let up." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
7. "The glass door swung open and two big, homely women walked in looking guilty. They were the kind of women who, out of sheer loneliness, end up doing kinky stuff with candy bars and wake up with apple fritters in their hair." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
8. "Six months ago, her old doctor at the Henry J. Hamilton Rehabilitation Centee had put her back on all her medications after somebody disguised in a paper bag had tried to strangle her in front of the Tobacco Friendly. Though she described the sack perfectly, even drew a picture of it down at the station, the cops never found a single suspect." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
9. "They's a lot of no-good sonofabitches out there."Arvin asks, "More than a hundred?"Willard laughed a little and put the truck in gear. "Yeah, at least that many." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
10. "Jimmy's eyes would turn as red and sticky as candy, and his head would fall back against the seat in a dream. If he were lucky tonight, maybe he would see something that he hadn't seen before. And then it would be my turn." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
11. "Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money." ~ Donald Ray Pollock
12. "The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed." ~ Donald Ray Pollock

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But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a kid who'd never viddied any such thing before, and he said: "What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?" I nudged him hard, saying: "Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing."
Author: Anthony Burgess

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