"When I turned fifty, I decided to quit……" — Donald Ray Pollock

"When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school."

— Donald Ray Pollock

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14 Quotes by Donald Ray Pollock

Donald Ray Pollock has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months,…
J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories…
Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted…
I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the…
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…
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken…
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…
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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God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for… — Drew Barrymore
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. — George Ade
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon. — Ambrose Bierce
You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The… — Joe Biden
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. — Theodor Adorno
I went through a mod and goth-phase when I decided that I wouldn't ever be the bronzed beach-bunny. I started… — Cate Blanchett
I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I… — Mary J. Blige
People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided… — Usain Bolt
I have decided not to run for president. — John Bolton

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