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> [For a long time, I thought you could remain isolated and survive, and I didn't want to change that. But over the last three or four books, I've become more comfortable with the idea that I'm not really throwing anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/for-a-long-time-i-thought-you-could-remain-isolated-and-survive-and-i/)

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## More by Daniel Woodrell

> [“The men came to mind as mostly idle between nights of running wild or time in the pen, cooking moon and gathering around the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/the-men-came-to-mind-as-mostly-idle-between-nights-of-running-wild-or/)

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> [It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/it-s-not-always-to-the-benefit-of-the-story-to-have-it-so-preordained/)

[Daniel Woodrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-woodrell/)

> [“of the ready green on a blue felt top. The gentlemen who had assembled around it for an evening of high-stakes Hold ’Em were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/of-the-ready-green-on-a-blue-felt-top-the-gentlemen-who-had-assembled/)

[Daniel Woodrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-woodrell/)

> [“Well, we got to do the right thing by this boy,” Sundown said. “The right thing.” Duncan’s neck relaxed and his head flopped back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/well-we-got-to-do-the-right-thing-by-this-boy-sundown-said-the-right/)

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> [“On his next return to this world, Duncan Cobb, oldest son, faithless cousin, cautious lover, and pal of killers, awoke infused with the lucidity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/on-his-next-return-to-this-world-duncan-cobb-oldest-son-faithless/)

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> [“..boys by civil calculations, we had by now roughed up the swami and slept where the elephant shits, Shocking us would have required some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/boys-by-civil-calculations-we-had-by-now-roughed-up-the-swami-and/)

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> [I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/i-was-not-much-used-to-women-except-for-mothers-everything-i-did-they/)

[Daniel Woodrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-woodrell/)

> [“Her right hand held a bottle of Pepsi that she'd clogged with peanuts and called a late lunch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/her-right-hand-held-a-bottle-of-pepsi-that-she-d-clogged-with-peanuts/)

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> [Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/gail-had-a-baby-named-ned-who-was-four-months-old-and-a-new-look-of/)

[Daniel Woodrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-woodrell/)

> [“I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/i-fell-deep-down-in-there-until-this-bright-light-raised-me-from/)

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> [“Mike Rondeau, a tall drink of a man sloshed into a squat glass, with a belt that could double as a lasso and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/mike-rondeau-a-tall-drink-of-a-man-sloshed-into-a-squat-glass-with-a/)

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> [“...the great name of the Dollys was Milton, and ...if you named a son Milton it was a decision that attempted to chart the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/the-great-name-of-the-dollys-was-milton-and-if-you-named-a-son-milton/)

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> [“I hate to fall back on weird to describe them, but goofy is too weak, and strange sounds too sensible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/i-hate-to-fall-back-on-weird-to-describe-them-but-goofy-is-too-weak/)

[Daniel Woodrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-woodrell/)

> [“Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung from trees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/ree-dolly-stood-at-the-break-of-day-on-her-cold-front-steps-and/)

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> [“Moons of ache glowed in spaces of her meat and when she moved the moons banged together and stunned.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-woodrell/moons-of-ache-glowed-in-spaces-of-her-meat-and-when-she-moved-the/)

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