"Unless he had whiskey running through his veins,……" — Donald Ray Pollock
"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 was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time."
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Donald Ray Pollock
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14 Quotes by Donald Ray Pollock
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Some people were born just so they could be buried.
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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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