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Don't Ever Quit. Never Quit. Never Show Anybody You're Hurt. Grin And Walk Through The Cannon Smoke. It Will Drive Them Up The Wall. You Always Stay True To Your Own Principles. You Always Believe In Your Gift. God Doesn't Make Mistakes When He Presents Someone With A Gift Like That. It's There For A Reason. Tell The Naysayers, Those Who Reject You, To Drop Dead! Who Cares?

That's One Of The Great Advantages Of Age. You Can Say, I Don't Want To, I Don't Care, You Can Throw Temper Tantrums, And Nobody Minds.

Hackberry Holland's Greatest Fear Was His Fellow Man's Propensity To Act Collectively, In Militaristic Lockstep, Under The Banner Of God And Country. Mobs Did Not Rush Across Town To Do Good Deeds, And In Hackberry's View, There Was No More Odious Taint On Any Social Or Political Endeavor Than Universal Approval.

I Sometimes Subscribe To The Belief That All Historical Events Occur Simultaneously, Like A Dream In The Mind Of God. Perhaps It Is Only Man Who Views Time Sequentially And Tries To Impose A Solar Calendar Upon It. What If Other People, Both Dead And Unborn, Are Living Out Their Lives In The Same Space We Occupy, Without Our Knowledge Or Consent?" The Glass Rainbow, P. 138

I Think The "crime Novel" Has Replaced The Sociological Novel Of The 1930s. I Think The Progenitor Of That Tradition Is James M. Cain, Who In My View Is The Most Neglected Writer In American Literature.