I considered the wonder of the things that befell me, convinced that my life was the best omelet you could make with a chainsaw. -- Panama
Thomas McGuaneI may be the wrong person for my life.
Thomas McGuaneIt don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.
Thomas McGuaneThat food was so bad I can't wait for it to become a turd and leave me.
Thomas McGuaneShe ate her breakfast in silence, then drove downtown in weather so lowering the streetlights seemed decapitated. This was when you could discover if your preparations for winter were adequate, and if you were ready for the restrictions of movement and light that were about to be upon you.
Thomas McGuaneBy your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.
Thomas McGuaneIn Oakland, he saw two slum children sword fighting on a slag heap. In Palo Alto, a puffy fop in bursting jodhpurs shouted from the door of a luxurious stable, "My horse is soiled!" While one chilly evening in Union Square he listened to a wild-eyed young woman declaim that she had seen delicate grandmothers raped by Kiwanis zombies, that she had seen Rotarian blackguards bludgeoning Easter bunnies in a coal cellar, that she had seen Irving Berlin buying an Orange Julius in Queens.
Thomas McGuaneLiterature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
Thomas McGuaneGiving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.
Thomas McGuaneThey were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics.
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