Quotes from The Devil All the Time

Donald Ray Pollock ·  261 pages

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“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from The Devil All the Time


“Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from The Devil All the Time


“It's hard to live a good life...It seems like the Devil don't ever let up.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from The Devil All the Time


“He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from The Devil All the Time


“They's a lot of no-good sonofabitches out there."
Arvin asks, "More than a hundred?"
Willard laughed a little and put the truck in gear. "Yeah, at least that many.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from The Devil All the Time



“Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from The Devil All the Time


“Some people were born just so they could be buried; his mother was like that, and he’d always”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from The Devil All the Time


About the author

Donald Ray Pollock
Born place: in The United States
Born date January 1, 1954
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