T. R. Pearson quotes

“It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.”
-- T. R. Pearson

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“A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that brings the gritty, rural past to vivid life. I could very nearly smell the moonshine (the moonshiners too!). Pass a few hours with Mary Bet Hartsoe and family. You won't regret it.”
-- T. R. Pearson

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“There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.”
-- T. R. Pearson

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“For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way.”
-- T. R. Pearson

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“An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.”

“Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Historia, XXVI. 8, 1922.

“When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.”

“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.”

“It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.”

Source : "Ashley's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.

“When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.”

“The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.”

“I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.”

“Writing is a holy chore.”

“A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.”

Source : Bette Lord (1984). “In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson”, HarperCollins Publishers