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Tom Franklin quotes: Smell of natural gas, piped from the big metal tank in the backyard, filled once a month by a truck.

Smell of natural gas, piped from the big metal tank in the backyard, filled once a month by a truck.

Tom Franklin quotes: they say bad things come in threes, so we got our quota for a while ain't we.

they say bad things come in threes, so we got our quota for a while ain't we.

Tom Franklin quotes: Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the consequences?

Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connected by motion, going too fast for him to notice the consequences?

Tom Franklin quotes: What damn fool punches his own horse?

What damn fool punches his own horse?

Tom Franklin quotes: I realized how lucky I was to have been raised here in these southern woods among poachers and storytellers.

I realized how lucky I was to have been raised here in these southern woods among poachers and storytellers.

Tom Franklin quotes: She had been told of a thing that sounded like a locomotive. And that thing was a flood.

She had been told of a thing that sounded like a locomotive. And that thing was a flood.

Tom Franklin quotes: Down Hearted Blues, by Bessie Smith. This is the song Ingersoll is singing to the baby

Down Hearted Blues, by Bessie Smith. This is the song Ingersoll is singing to the baby

Tom Franklin quotes: Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith. This is the one most closely associated with the 1927 flood,

Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith. This is the one most closely associated with the 1927 flood,

Tom Franklin quotes: Back water done rose at Sumner," sings Patton, "drove poor Charlie down, down the line.

Back water done rose at Sumner," sings Patton, "drove poor Charlie down, down the line.

Tom Franklin quotes: Soon the Mississippi night hummed by outside his windows, bug, bird, frog, the wind on his face.

Soon the Mississippi night hummed by outside his windows, bug, bird, frog, the wind on his face.

Tom Franklin quotes: Daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys.

Daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys.

Tom Franklin quotes: In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.

Tom Franklin quotes: field beyond field beyond field of well-kept cotton, each tuft white as a senator's eyebrow.

field beyond field beyond field of well-kept cotton, each tuft white as a senator's eyebrow.

Tom Franklin quotes: But maybe, she told herself, the squirrels had felt themselves falling and leaped to safety. The key was to know when you were falling.

But maybe, she told herself, the squirrels had felt themselves falling and leaped to safety. The key was to know when you were falling.

Tom Franklin quotes: Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

Tom Franklin quotes: all monsters were misunderstood.

all monsters were misunderstood.

Tom Franklin quotes: He was the kind of man who grew better looking the longer you knew him. Whereas Jesse began to tarnish the moment you took him off the shelf.

He was the kind of man who grew better looking the longer you knew him. Whereas Jesse began to tarnish the moment you took him off the shelf.

Tom Franklin quotes: Their lives had stopped, frozen, as if in a picture, and the days were nothing more than empty squares on a calendar.

Their lives had stopped, frozen, as if in a picture, and the days were nothing more than empty squares on a calendar.

Tom Franklin quotes: the writing process behind The Tilted World.

the writing process behind The Tilted World.

Tom Franklin quotes: He was tired of having only three channels.

He was tired of having only three channels.

Tom Franklin quotes: The land had a way of covering the wrongs of people.

The land had a way of covering the wrongs of people.