Mccrumb Quotes

#1. The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is.
Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271

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#2. Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts on the mountainsides...

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#3. Half magic is no magic at all.

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#4. All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls for the tribute of a song. Happiness is its own gift, and needs no other. The Songcatchers

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#5. Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of a green mineral called serpentine ...

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#6. Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest.
Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon! which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side.

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#7. You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.

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#8. Some people are born to fit the times.

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#9. The ones that landed near the bathroom are Bad Tolkien imitations or transcripts of a D&D adventure; bad Herbert, Heinlein, and Asimov are below the television; and these on the bed are the ones whose authors I want to hunt down personally and slap.

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#10. Being a professional writer is a lot like being a hooker. You'd better find out if you're any good at it before you start charging for it.

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#11. Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

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#12. SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

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#13. All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

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#14. Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

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#15. Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.

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#16. Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.

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#17. Is the groom going to go where no man has gone before?

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#18. Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

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#19. It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.

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#20. I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

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#21. Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

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#22. Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

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#23. I always, always wanted to be the Dungeon Master because that's where the creativity lies - in thinking up places, characters and situations. If done well, a game can be a novel in itself.

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#24. Anger is more productive than fear.

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#25. Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

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#26. Wild steep mountains floating in a haze of cloud...a sea of green trees swallowing the hills and valleys, and curling around the trails and rivers, with the wind in the leaves as its tide.

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#27. Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

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#28. Oh, son, hardly anybody wants to leave. These mountains are more than just a place for folks around here.

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#29. High school and equality are forever incompatible.

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#30. There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end, as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn.

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