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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake QUOTES

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake QUOTES

1 " I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years. "

― Breece D'J Pancake , The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

2 " But if life has any definition at all, it is the things that happen to us while we are making plans. "

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3 " I lean back, try to forget these fields and flanking hills. A long time before me or these tools, the Teays flowed here. I can almost feel the cold waters and the tickling the trilobites make when they crawl. All the water from the old mountains flowed west. But the land lifted. I have only the bottoms and stone animals I collect. I blink and breathe. My father is a khaki cloud in the canebrakes, and Ginny is no more to me than the bitter smell in the blackberry briers up on the ridge. --from Trilobites "

― Breece D'J Pancake , The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

4 " I walk along the avenue thinking how shit always sinks, and how all these towns dump their shit for the river to push it down to the delta. Then I think about that girl sitting in the alley, sitting in her own slough, and I shake my head. I have not gotten that low.

I stop in front of the bus station, look in on the waiting people, and think about all the places they are going. But I know they can't run away from it or drink their way out or die to get rid of it. It's always there, you just look at somebody and they give you a look like the Wrath of God. "

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5 " Daylight fires the ridges green, shifts the colors of the fog, touches the brick streets of Rock Camp with a reddish tone. The streetlights flicker out, and the traffic signal at the far end of Front Street's yoke snaps on; stopping nothing, warning nothing, rushing nothing on. --from The Honored Dead "

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6 " I stop in front of the bus station, look in on the waiting people, and think about all the places they are going. But I know they can’t run away from it or drink their way out of it or die to get rid of it. It’s always there, you just look at somebody and they give you a look like the Wrath of God. "

― Breece D'J Pancake , The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

7 " He hears false power in the preacher's voice, sees outsiders pretending. Old fool, he thinks, new fools are here to take your place. "

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8 " A writer, no matter what the context, is made an outsider by the demands of his vocation, "

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9 " A lightning flash peels shadows from the yard and leaves a dark strip under the cave of the barn. I feel a scum on my skin in the still air. I take my supper to the porch. "

― Breece D'J Pancake , The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

10 " In the window I see our ghosts against the black gloss of glass. She put her arm around me, and I think how we maybe never left the business end. "

― Breece D'J Pancake , The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

11 " I was born in this country and I have never very much wanted to leave. I remember Pop's dead eyes looking at me. They were real dry, and that took something out of me.

From Trilobites "

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