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I have to write to discover what I am doing. —Flannery O’Connor
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
"He IS a disgraceful object,
Willa Sibert Cather • O Pioneers!
Randy and Mark never forgot Preacher Henry’s thundering, and from it they borrowed their private synonym for disaster, real or comic, past or future. If one fell off the dock, or lost all his cash at poker, or failed to make time with a promising Pistolville piece, or announced that hurricane or freeze was on the way, the other commiserated with, “
... See morePat Frank • Alas, Babylon: A Novel (Harper Perennial Olive Edition)
And how many people has it hurt? How many are going to starve later because of destroyed crops? That’s nature. Is it God?
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.
Paul Negri • Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers: Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, ... more (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
Thus, the African, exile, pagan, hurried off the auction block and into the fields, fell on his knees before that God in Whom he must now believe; who had made him, but not in His image. This tableau, this impossibility, is the heritage of the Negro in America: Wash me, cried the slave to his Maker, and I shall be whiter, whiter than snow!
James Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
bastards.”) The paralyzed man decided to go with the ruling power. I’ve noticed more than a few people who pick Mitch McConnell over Jesus.