Larry Brown Quotes

#1. We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now ... won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?

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#2. After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, 'Maybe life isn't or everyone.

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#3. The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.

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#4. All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

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#5. I can understand why people jump off bridges.

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#6. Sunday just came down like a nine-pound hammer ... it was tainted with the closing-in feeling of the loss of freedom. Because after the sun went down, it came back up on Monday morning. And you had to go to work five more days. And it sucked.

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#7. Couldn't get no closer and couldn't get no further away.

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#8. Don't say what you would or wouldn't do, honey. Cause one day you might have to.

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#9. That boy," he said. "I've done him ever favor I could. Some folks you can't do nothing with. Just sorry. God knows I've done plenty of drinking and stuff in my time, but I be damn if I ever tried to cheat anybody out of any money.

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#10. Details...details...details...

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#11. I didn't want to see anything worse than me befall her.

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#12. You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction out of it. It's all you have. And somehow, wherever you are, it always seems to be enough.

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#13. The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.

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#14. I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already.

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#15. I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

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#16. If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.

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