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Quotes from The Night We Buried Road Dog — Jack Cady

1932–2004 United States

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Men build all kinds of worlds in order to defeat fear and loneliness.

The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993)

Her eyes held that long-distance prairie look, a look knowing wind and fire and hard times, stuff that either breaks people or leaves them wise.

The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993)

The world was changing, and it wouldn’t change back.

The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993)

All the mysteries of the world seem normal after dark. If imagination shows dead thumbs aching for a ride, those dead folk only prove the hot and spermy goodness of life.

The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993)

It’s no big job to fool yourself.

The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993)

Snowy owls come floating in from northward, while folks go to church on Sunday against the time when there’s some better amusement. Men hang around town, because home is either empty or crowded, depending on if you’re married. Folks sit before television, watching the funny, goofy, unreal world where everybody plays at being sexy and naked, even when they’re not.

The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993)

On top of the war talk, women were driving me crazy: the ones who said “no” and the ones who said “yes.” It got downright mystifying just trying to figure out which was worse. At nineteen, it’s hard to know how to act.

The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jack Cady (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.