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Top Tom Franklin Quotes

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1. "Maybe Larry was wrong about the word friend, maybe he'd been shoved away from everybody for so long all he was was a sponge for the wrongs other people did." ~ Tom Franklin
2. "Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying to comprehend. But what would daylight offer except the illusion of understanding? At least in darkness you were spared the pretending." ~ Tom Franklin
3. "The seat belt irked his father more than Uncle Colin's not eating meat, because, though his father never said it, Larry knew he considered seat belts cowardly." ~ Tom Franklin
4. "What damn fool punches his own horse?" ~ Tom Franklin
5. "...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves..." ~ Tom Franklin
6. "Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream." ~ Tom Franklin
7. "Well, sugar," she said, limping off, "don't be too hard on yourself. Now and again it's okay to let yourself off the hook."But that was the trouble, wasn't it? Letting himself off the hook had been his way of life." ~ Tom Franklin
8. "He was tired of having only three channels." ~ Tom Franklin
9. "Soon the Mississippi night hummed by outside his windows, bug, bird, frog, the wind on his face." ~ Tom Franklin
10. "At some point, Alice slipped one arm and then the other into the coat's sleeves, she buttoned its buttons, starting at the top. Silas had followed her, still not seeing what an emblem of defeat, shame, loss, hopelessness, the coat was. With such gaps in his understanding, he saw very clearly how the boy he'd been had grown up to be the man he was." ~ Tom Franklin
11. "Their lives had stopped, frozen, as if in a picture, and the days were nothing more than empty squares on a calendar." ~ Tom Franklin
12. "... daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys." ~ Tom Franklin
13. "It wasn't Glen's jealousy that surprised him. "You owe Roy money?""Yep. Borrowed it to get my truck painted.""Roy's a loan shark, too?""You ever see JAWS?" Snakebite asked.Glen said he had."How 'bout THE GODFATHER?""Yeah.""Well, if Michael Corleone waded out in the ocean and fucked that shark, then you'd have old Roy."from the Tom Franklin short story "Grit" (page 31) from POACHERS:STORIES" ~ Tom Franklin
14. "But now his life had weight." ~ Tom Franklin
15. "In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure." ~ Tom Franklin
16. "He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That's what it's like to be rich.Here's what it's like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you can't find a job because there aren't any jobs to find. You empty the jar of pennies on the mantel to buy cigarettes. You hate to answer the phone; it can't possibly be good news. When your friends invite you out, you don't go. After a while, they stop inviting. You owe them money, and sometimes they ask for it. You tell them you'll see what you can scrape up.Which is this: nothing." ~ Tom Franklin

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Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it."
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