Clean house Quote by Kevin Powers

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

— Kevin Powers

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

— Kevin Powers

“I didn't want to be responsible for him. I had enough to worry about. I was disintegrating, too. How was I supposed to keep…

— Kevin Powers

I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than…

— Kevin Powers

“Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.”

— Kevin Powers

“I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn…

— Kevin Powers

I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what…

— Kevin Powers

The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung…

— Kevin Powers

“People are going to die," he said flatly. "It's statistics." Then he got up and left the room.”

— Kevin Powers

“It's lovely to think that snow can be special. we're always told it is. Of all those million million flakes that fall, no two…

— Kevin Powers

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

— Kevin Powers

It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was…

— Kevin Powers