Robert Penn Warren Quote

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.


All the King's Men (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006) - ISBN: 9780156031042


When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it....

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it....

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it....

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it....