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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/he-buys-playboy-magazines-and-looks-through-them-once-then-gives-them/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

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## More by Tom Franklin

> [“What damn fool punches his own horse?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/what-damn-fool-punches-his-own-horse/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/he-buys-playboy-magazines-and-looks-through-them-once-then-gives-them/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“He found the first skipped meals were the hardest, the hunger a hollow ache. The longer he went without eating, though, the second day,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/he-found-the-first-skipped-meals-were-the-hardest-the-hunger-a-hollow/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“The visit hadn't lasted much longer, and Wallace never said what he'd done, but after Larry watched him go, he'd spent the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/the-visit-hadn-t-lasted-much-longer-and-wallace-never-said-what-he-d/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/maybe-she-d-needed-her-dream-to-come-true-to-realize-it-was-the-wrong/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/at-some-point-alice-slipped-one-arm-and-then-the-other-into-the-coat/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/dawn-crept-up-out-of-the-trees-defining-a-bole-a-burl-a-leaf-at-a/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/the-seat-belt-irked-his-father-more-than-uncle-colin-s-not-eating/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“... daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/daylight-crept-through-the-trees-like-an-army-of-crafty-boys/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“He was tired of having only three channels.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/he-was-tired-of-having-only-three-channels/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/was-that-what-childhood-was-things-rushing-by-out-a-window-the-trees/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“Ham had a way of encouraging intimacy, of making you feel you'd known him for years, and only when you had known him for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/ham-had-a-way-of-encouraging-intimacy-of-making-you-feel-you-d-known/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the whole picture?...having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/he-wished-he-understood-better-how-the-pieces-of-his-life-fit/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [“They'd already shouted to each other the facts, but they hadn't had time to press the hurt spots.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/they-d-already-shouted-to-each-other-the-facts-but-they-hadn-t-had/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

> [In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-franklin/in-the-divorce-my-ex-got-everything-even-kept-her-composure/)

[Tom Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-franklin/)

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