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“My particular memory is of a quail-pie. Quails may be alright for Moses in the desert, but, if they are served in the form of pie at dinner, they should be distributed at a side-table, not handed round from guest to guest. The countess having shuddered at it and resumed her biscuit, it was left to me to make the opening excavation. The difficulty was to know where each quail began and ended: the job really wanted a professional quail-finder, who might have indicated the on the surface of the crust at which it would be most hopeful to dig for quails.”
― If I May
― If I May

“This world is painted on a wild dark metal”
― Shadow Country
― Shadow Country

“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.”
― Outer Dark
― Outer Dark

“I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it”
― The Sunset Limited
― The Sunset Limited

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