"I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory."

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Source : "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.

Donald Ray Pollock

#Ohio Quotes #Years Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
“The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myselfâ€¦They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.”
“Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.”
“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
“Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.”
“The most wretched have yet hope.”
“It's always better to be kind. I'm glad I know why." -Wanda”
“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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