Books Quote by J.D. Vance

“Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.”

— J.D. Vance

“To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you couldn’t tolerate…

— Carolyn Jourdan

“They were tolerant of what most people in town would think of as moral lapses in each other, but quite intolerant of departures in…

— Alice Munro

“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we…

— William H. Gass

“The rural, mid-19th-century dialect, coupled with the author's interest in ethnobotany, roots the story deeply in the houses, forests, gardens, and even streambeds of…

— Sharon Lovejoy

“all communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people”

— Alexander Hamilton

“There were, of course, other heroes, little ones who did little things to help people get through: merchants who let profits disappear rather than…

— Harvey H. Jackson

“In people’s lives and worldviews, concerns about economics, race, gender, class, and culture all blend together.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Victorian novels come to us, that is, poised between questions of outer and inner, public and private life; they tend to contrast and nally…

— Hilary Schor

“I sat in school and I read about how everything changes even in Crapalachia. I read about how the miners became machines, and the…

— Scott McClanahan

Although, from the point of view of sociology, the overt ambition of 'American Pastoral' - to imagine the impact on a good man of…

— Howard Jacobson

“A society that is controlled by an elite minority group who use the population as a food source, will never know civility”

— Alejandro C. Estrada