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“This old Appalachia is like a big Noah's ark. I'd rather be on the inside looking out, than on the outside looking in.”

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“...She had a body running at warp speed with a brain chugging along at a putter.”

Appalachian Fiction

Book:In the Cut

Source: In the Cut

“It feels lonely, left out in the cold. I long for the caw of crows in the treetops, a snap of a doe in the brush, a squirrel barking on a high branch to claim his turf. But nothing stirs. Nature’s no fool, I think. Not like man out here. But, then again, I reckon man’s the only creature to bury his own.”

Appalachian Fiction

Book:In the Cut

Source: In the Cut

“She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful.”

Adultification Sexual Assualt

Book:River East, River West

Source: River East, River West

“Your mother doesn't know these things,” he said, a note of pleading in his voice. "She has always been that way. She is an artist. Her feet barely touch the ground. I've been the one to keep her tethered to the earth. And now it's your job. And you're too young, and it's not fair, but there it is." He was right. It wasn't fair.”

Child Neglect Parentification Absent Parents Adultification

Book:The Crane Husband

Source: The Crane Husband

“They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”

Book:Maurice

Source: Maurice

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.”

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated.”

Jobs Middle Class Joblessness Job Searching Job Coaching

Book:Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“Tax work less. Tax wealth more.”

Poor Economics Labor Middle Class Working Class Wealth Inequality Billionaires Passive Income Wealth Tax Wealth Distribution

Author:Gary Stevenson

“Watching middle-class conservatives vote for politicians who've proudly pledged to screw them and their children over fills me with the same exasperated contempt I feel for rabbits who zigzag wildly back and forth in front of my tires instead of just getting off the goddamn road.”

Politics Middle Class Conservatives

Book:We Learn Nothing

Source: We Learn Nothing

“In this connection, I should like to say something that I have found in many other writers: Intellectual alienation is a creation of middle-class society. What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.”

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks