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By AnonymJohn Sandford
As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Got here half an hour ago and had a look, eyeballin' it," Sawyer said. "It's murder, all right. Tell you something else - the sun went down, and it's as dark as the inside of a horses's ass out here." "You're sure?" "Well, I've never actually been inside a horses's ass.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
If a Martian were watching our television shows, he'd conclude that guns were more common than hammers. They're not evil themselves--they're tools--but everywhere you go, bad people have them. It behooves the righteous to at least know how they work.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
If I get killed, put my boots back on me.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
said "let's send that fuckin' Flowers up there. He hasn't done anything for us lately." "He's off today," somebody said. Davenport said, "So what?
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
The Minneapolis City Hall is not a pretty building. A pile of red granite, a sullen nineteenth-century Romanesque lump, it squats amid the glittering glass-and-steel towers of the loop like a wart poking through a diamond necklace.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's impossible to distinguish real fake reactions from fake fake reactions.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Virgil had read once that Grandma Moses was a primitive painter because she thought snow was white. The writer said if you really looked at it, snow was hardly ever white. It mostly was a gentler version of the color of the sky - blue, gray, orange in the evenings and mornings, often with purple shadows. When he looked, sure enough, the guy was right, and Grandma Moses had her head up her ass.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Volvos are fundamentally invisible.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird.
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By AnonymJohn Sandford
Why bother to go through life if you can't do interesting shit?
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