"Knockemstiff is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters."

-- Donald Ray Pollock

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“When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.”
“It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word.”

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“I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.”
“I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.”
“Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.”
“The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”
“We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value every human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous communities and nations.”
“Peace is produced by war.”

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