Change my conviction.
A man lives morally all his life, then in one weak moment commits an act that damns him in his own eyes and threatens his liberty, even his life.
Nothing was what you thought it was, because no one was who they pretended to be.
A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.
All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it’s over. And that’s not life—it’s livi...
When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it’s time to go home.
Learned a long time ago, if you’re going to wait for this world to be fair, you’re going to be waiting in the grave.
Elbowed Danny. You think Shields is the father of that baby?
The colonel had a single vice—whiskey—and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it's not even past. All of us labor in...
She’s floating outside in the maternal holding pattern all women learn after they have children, one that serves them well after grandchildren come along.
To yearn for ignorance is to embrace the wishful thinking of a child. For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.
Remember what Aristotle said! she cries. Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace! Horace? What did Horace say, Pithy? Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, be...
Raising
County rescue boat to recover the corpse. Normally, I would
The thing about kicking open a door to the past is that sometimes what’s behind it comes out under its own power.
IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.
Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.
Something new every time. The sound of forest insects comes from the phone. Then the screen lights up with the green sweep of my backyard. Even from the kitchen counter, I can see Jet’s naked body sit...
He committed such a heinous act, would have owned up to it and taken his punishment like a man, as the archaic phrase goes. That may be a quaint and sexist notion these days, but some of what is best...
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