"Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one."

-- Sam Lipsyte

#Integrity Quotes #Moving Quotes #Book Quotes

“Im always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.”
“This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have wings, making them hard to catch. 3. All power corrupts, but we need electricity. 4. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, the result is a family fight. 5. Music does not always sooth the troubled beast. 6. An Englishman's home is his castle. 7. The female of the species is more deadly than the male. 8. One black eye deserves another. 9. Space is the final frontier, and so is the sewage farm. 10. It pays to increase your word power.”
“I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.”
“I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.”
“Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.”

Source : "Obama or Clinton better for blacks?" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. December 12, 2011.
“The term 'sexual orientation'...is basically a code word for homosexuality.”
“Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.”
“As an early adopter of the internet, I've changed as the internet has changed, and I regret a lot of the things that I used to believe or used to do.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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