The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story
Matt Bondurant
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The constant assertion of masculinity is always the most obvious tell of a fake. You do not constantly assert what you know you have.”
“It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face.”
“Without that fear, we are all as good as dead.”
“A man who likes to get hit is the one to watch out for.”
“The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.”
“Sure,but that don't mean I've got to go far away.On your own has nothing to do with distance.”
“Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.”
“...he had focused so long on the precision of the word, the utterance that was most unfettered by artful manipulation, that the thing had become mere style.”
“I’ll tell you what, Howard said, you only need to know one thing. Something ol’ Forrest knows. That’s you gotta hit first, hit with everythin’ you got, and then keep hittin’ until the man is down, and then you hit him some more. Jack nodded. Many men, Howard said, like the idea of fightin’ but very few likes to get hit. You can make a man wanna quit real quick with that first shot. A good straight left into the nose bone and most will let it be. A man who likes to get hit is the one to watch out for.”
“It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face. Perhaps it was the aftermath, the burning humiliation of it they sought, when the aching morning came and they rolled over in the dirt and felt their mouth for teeth or lightly touched the split ear, the face in the rearview mirror swollen and crusted with blood. Forrest figured if these men wanted it he might as well give it to them. Either way he would push him off into the ditch and break his legs and if the man died then it was his own fault.”
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