"The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't……" — Donald Ray Pollock
"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 disabled. I felt blessed."
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14 Quotes by Donald Ray Pollock
Donald Ray Pollock has 14 quotes on this site.
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Some people were born just so they could be buried.
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Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in…
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J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories…
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Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted…
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I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the…
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A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.
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Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to…
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Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken…
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I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.
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I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at…
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I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant…
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When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
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