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> [“Have you seen a person recently so delicious-looking that, were you and this person to be scrambling for ice-cream change with your arms in the sofa and your faces laid on the cushions looking at each other as you felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/have-you-seen-a-person-recently-so-delicious-looking-that-were-you/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

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## More by Padgett Powell

> [If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/if-you-could-have-a-famous-writer-dead-or-alive-write-an-obituary-for/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/that-s-part-of-fiction-creating-a-world-better-than-the-one-you-live/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/i-don-t-know-any-more-about-america-than-one-knows-being-trapped-in-it/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/i-ve-had-an-addiction-for-a-long-time-to-the-whole-business-of/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [“the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/the-zombies-after-all-were-pretty-slow-to-appreciate-someone-other/)

[padgett powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/even-if-you-re-the-worst-writer-in-the-world-at-least-you-ll-have-the/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [“don't hesitate to insulate your house, especially the floor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/don-t-hesitate-to-insulate-your-house-especially-the-floor/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [“ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/ease-up-the-day-was-rued-when-we-came-upon-it-or-when-it-came-upon-us/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [“apply shingles from the bottom up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/apply-shingles-from-the-bottom-up/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/life-is-a-sandwich-of-activity-between-two-periods-of-bed-wetting/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/i-knew-i-was-supposed-to-be-a-writer-i-had-made-that-declaration-in/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [“Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech, had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/now-she-understood-a-few-things-that-the-american-academy-which-one/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [“A whole section of the family tree is pruned and primped and assessed as I politely sit there. Overall, I detect that the tree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/a-whole-section-of-the-family-tree-is-pruned-and-primped-and-assessed/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/have-you-come-over-time-to-think-that-you-know-more-now-than-you-did/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

> [Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/cholesterol-to-go-with-alcohol-all-the-bad-things-in-english-speaking/)

[Padgett Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/padgett-powell/)

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