"Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift."

-- Megan Abbott

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“Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.”
“Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song.”
“That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have prejudices and share all the popular political superstitions of the moment as ardently as he can. But he must not have principles. He must never let the people suspect that they cannot eat their cake and have it. He must promise them a defense program and a higher standard of living. He must never use that dreadful little word or.”
“People who are good at stand-up, they sort of seem to have to do it. Something within them makes them have to go on the road.”
“You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.”

Source : "Happy birthday Mr F1: A birthday tribute to motorsport legend Murray Walker" by Byron Young, www.mirror.co.uk. October 10, 2012.
“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”
“The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.”
“I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.”

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