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Who gave of their time: Joe Files, MD, Rod Givens, MD,

For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.

into another identity. And I

blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables.

We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.

We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.

The colonel had a single vice - whiskey - and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.

Mom covers the wrought-iron patio table with newspaper, and Dad dumps the steaming crawfish

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

I listened in amazement. You saw a face on an American street, or in an office, and you had no idea that a tragic epic lay behind it.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

PET scan and gene therapy. "I need you

I don't really understand the world anymore. But maybe there's some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Whenever life gets too good, whenever fate hands you something wonderful, something else gets taken away.

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

But as my mother always said: You never know what's cooking in someone else's pot.

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

Even chitlins smell good to a starving man.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.

Don't keep a girl guessing too long, or she'll find the answer somewhere else.

For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests

fervent, will not cure the afflicted. Nor

The evil prosper, and the innocent pay the bills for them.

The larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism - the most destructive forces available to man.

There is always something.

There's nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they're paralyzed by fear.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Because death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him.

I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.

Deer were damn good swimmers, though not many people knew it.

You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.

Path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

the embarrassment

You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.

IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

God is all powerful.
God is good.
Evil exists.
You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three.

her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of

change my conviction.

Kaiser and Lenz are staring at each other like hunters who have walked into a thicket after a lion and found a unicorn.

Elbowed Danny. You think Shields is the father of that baby?

I don't say it was hard, because everybody got it hard, some way.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

carefully negotiated his way

Sheriff Dennis lifts an Ole Miss coffee mug off the desk and spits tobacco juice into it. "I like spitting on the Rebels," he says distractedly.

between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

Rumor runs through the community like a plague, and truth is the first casualty.