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> [“try to recall the person you thought you were and the moment you began to realize you are not that person, and try to grasp and appreciate the high quality of lunacy required for you to have ever thought you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/padgett-powell/try-to-recall-the-person-you-thought-you-were-and-the-moment-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/)

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> [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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