David Adams Richards Quotes
There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

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[...]no one can do an injury to you without doing an injury to themselves.

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What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French.That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else,” my father answered in French.

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I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

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Now you here and dealing not with him, who is dead, but with me, who is sitting here.”“But,” he said in exasperation, “that’s not the way it should be.”“I agree,” Janie King said.“You agree,” he said, showing some surprise in his voice. . . . Read more

-David Adams Richards
You do not understand -- no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [...] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.

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If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

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When she stamped her foot, it made a strange thud on the desolate beach. Like a heartbeat.

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