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Mr. Davis was a Senator, you know, before he became a professional Southerner, and a Senator can out-talk any man—can make you think a horse-chestnut is a chestnut horse.

— Andy Duncan Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000)

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Max, you are a melodrama with no audience and a cast of one!

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It’s an insane idea, yes, but hell, this is war. If insanity works, a general is duty-bound to use it.

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I went, shouted louder and louder, tried to clear my mind so that, when necessary, I could act without thinking, act like a soldier.

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Stephen knew I first served the Church by stocking reliquaries—transmuting unused bits of rotting paupers into the toes and teeth of saints.

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People will say bout anything. That don’t mean I have to believe it. What I see with my own eyes, that I believe.

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