Ben Fountain Quotes

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Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

Ben Fountain

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

Ben Fountain

You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

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It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.

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There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Ben Fountain

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

Ben Fountain