Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

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• Some people were born just so they could be buried.
• Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a…
• The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be…
• J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.
• Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in…
• I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.
• A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.
• Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which…
• Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it…
• I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.
• I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was…
• I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.
• When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
• I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

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