Something or other was being made good. I touched the knife hilt at my side, and remembered that all men were once boys, and that boys are always looking for ways to become men. Some of the ways are easy, too; all you have to do is be satisfied that it has happened.

— James Dickey Deliverance (1970)

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The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

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