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Pete Dexter QUOTES

21 " ...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps we all have our places. "

― Pete Dexter , The Paperboy

22 " now. “There is "

― Pete Dexter , Paris Trout

23 " He did not understand what went on in a Chinese heart, that something like this could happen. The Indians made more sense. "

― Pete Dexter , Deadwood

24 " ... It took him one minute to write. Bill stood over him, watching. "I don't know how you do that," he said. "Like the words are already inside the pen."

"It's just what's in your brain," Charley said. "The way the words come to you naturally is the best way to put them down."

Bill said, "The things in my head don't come in words. "

― Pete Dexter , Deadwood

25 " Charley wondered how it happened that men of the cloth always seemed to misunderstand the ways of the Lord. If you wanted protection you had to ask for money or love, and He would give you protection instead. Prayer was a study in misdirection... "

― Pete Dexter , Deadwood

26 " The boy shot Wild Bill's horse at dusk, while Bill was off in the bushes to relieve himself "

― Pete Dexter , Deadwood

27 " All in all, he felt more milked than loved. "

― Pete Dexter , Deadwood

28 " Cautious human beings do not presume to write history on a day's notice. They are aware of the damage mistakes can cause. My father believed that mistakes could always be corrected in the next edition. "

― Pete Dexter , The Paperboy

29 " [He] did not understand women. It wasn't the way bartenders or comedians didn't understand women, it was the way poor people didn't understand the economy. You could stand outside the Girard Bank Building every day of your life and never guess anything about what went on in there. That's why, in their hearts, they'd always rather stick up a 7-Eleven. "

― Pete Dexter , God's Pocket

30 " And the justice in this world is that you don’t have to break legs because somebody’s broken yours. "

― Pete Dexter , Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage

31 " ...David Mich is the Hollywood genius who produced and wrote much of the HBO series Deadwood. Mr. Milch's story was an interesting one to me, at least as it emerged from maybe half a dozen profiles written about him back when Deadwood was in its heyday, and it goes like this: Mr. Milch had pined to do a western ever since he was an important writer on an
Emmy-winning network cop series and could just as easily have been a novelist, if I remember the story correctly, and after years of research and reading everything available on the old west decided to focus his talents on the town of Deadwood in the 1870s. But hold your horses, Tex. As Mr. Milch explained it, he didn't read everything after all, he read everything except the novel Deadwood, and was not only able on his own to come up with the same setting and feel and characters that populated the novel, but somehow intuited a footnote-in-history sort of character named Charlie Utter into pretty much the same human being who is the central character of the novel. Except Mr. Milch gave him an English accent, and if that's not Hollywood genius I don't know what is. ...
--Acknowledgments "

― Pete Dexter , Spooner

32 " When a writer tells you his novel has received mixed reviews, it means that after his book was trashed and his heart broken in every newspaper and magazine in America, the weekend critic at the Pekin Daily Times said it was a heart-pounding race to the finish. "

― Pete Dexter , Spooner

33 " - Charley Utter & Wild Bill Hickock approach Deadwood…

… following the Whitewood Creek, & where things widened enough for a town sign, that was Deadwood.

“How's it look to you?” Bill said.

“Like something out of the Bible,” Charley said.

“What part of the Bible?” Bill said, when they were alone again.

“Where God got angry” Charley said. "

― Pete Dexter