Light in August

At first it shocked him: the abject fury of the New England glacier exposed suddenly to the fire of the New England biblical hell.

: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as a honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don’t try to hold him, that he can’t escape from.’

‘I reckon that even a fool gal don’t have to come as far as Mississippi to find out that whatever place she run from ain’t going to be a whole lot different or worse than the place she is at.

“For money and excitement,” Varner says. “Lucas
ain’t the first young buck that’s throwed over
what he was bred to do and them that depended on him doing it, for money and excitement.”

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.”

Отцова кровь ненавидит с любовью и гордостью, а материнская — с ненавистью любит и сожительствует.

Я думаю, быть хорошим - самое лёгкое для лентяя