Quotes by : Padgett Powell

disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house....

At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown.....

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now....

She thought it funny how the poor environment had been raped just fine until there was a sufficient excess....

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where....

Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to....

Isn't it true that there is a rare kind of person who perceives, as does a good dog, that life is doing....