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1 " Lead looked to his hand and saw sparkling chunks of glass in the cracks of the road. He saw ants running around the cracks, infinitely small. His blood ran into the cracks, creating rivers for the industrious ants to perplex over. Lead smiled at the creatures, for he understood that there is no difference between them and us in their wanderings and labor. "
― Nathan Yocum
2 " The burden of genius is not the labor of our endeavors but in sharing the world with fools who don't know they are fools. Mark my words, the pseudointellectual will be the death of us all. "
― Nathan Yocum , Automatic Woman
3 " Church and God ain't the same thing. From what I know, God's perfect. The Church makes mistakes... God's about order, Church is about power, as best as I can figure, to be against one is not to be against the other. "
― Nathan Yocum , The Zona
4 " What brings you to our gorgeous, God-given paradise, our Eden of monsters and half-men? "
5 " There is some unwritten code or law that all women or means must be into Hinduism or Mysticism or psychics by the time they reach fifty years of age. The male equivalent is ornate guns. All aging women find psychics, all aging males find gun cabinets and expensive brandy. There's your truth. "
6 " Good people will outlast the rule of the Church. No rule of law lasts for long, and there is nothing that can wholly destroy the good and evil that lives in man. It's ours to own for the duration of time and whatever exists beyond. "
7 " The man couldn't find his own arsehole with a map, a donkey, and two Sherpas. "
8 " Fortune smiles at a man on occasion, but misfortune rains down from on high with fury and volume. My dad used to say that. "
9 " Why did God make creatures as complex as women for creatures as simple as men? "
10 " What the Piece Work [brothel] lacked in respectability, it made up for in discretion. I'd met the doorman and clerk on half a dozen occasions, but never exchanged names. The sign-in ledger read like a SmithJones family reunion. Ever the contrarian, I signed myself in as "Hugh Jarse"... "
11 " When the big picture gets too big, boy, when you feel like you have too many tasks at hand, focus on the minutiae of the moment. The one little task that needs to get done right now. Finish, go to the next, then the next, then the next. The big picture is an illusion, like the ocean. You don’t ever have to consider the ocean, just the shite you’re swimming in right "
12 " Son, people are going to follow what they fear or what they love, and by God we can can give them both. "
