"My father lead by fear.  I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat.  His voice rang so vividly in my head.  That it was just…a fear."

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I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.

— Joe R. Lansdale