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Top 15 Michael McDowell Quotes (2025 Update)

Michael McDowell Quote: “All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.”

1. “All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “Savage mothers eat their children!”

2. “Savage mothers eat their children!”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He was upright enough to wish for correction but too weak to enforce it upon himself.”

3. “Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He was upright enough to wish for correction but too weak to enforce it upon himself.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “No mother and daughter in Perdido were closer than Mary Love Caskey and Sister. But it was not to be supposed that either told the other everything she thought or knew. In fact, each of them liked to keep little secrets from the other. Secrets which could be sprung at some opportune moment to produce a grand effect, rather in the manner of a little boy tossing lighted firecrackers beneath his sister’s bed while she napped on a hot summer afternoon.”

4. “No mother and daughter in Perdido were closer than Mary Love Caskey and Sister. But it was not to be supposed that either told the other everything she thought or knew. In fact, each of them liked to keep little secrets from the other. Secrets which could be sprung at some opportune moment to produce a grand effect, rather in the manner of a little boy tossing lighted firecrackers beneath his sister’s bed while she napped on a hot summer afternoon.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “I had never liked my parents so much that I wished to be reminded of them every time I walked into a room. I.”

5. “I had never liked my parents so much that I wished to be reminded of them every time I walked into a room. I.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “She’s got manners, but what has she got in the way of morals?” “Oh,” said Luker blithely, “she and I don’t have any morals. We have to get along with a scruple or two.” “I.”

6. “She’s got manners, but what has she got in the way of morals?” “Oh,” said Luker blithely, “she and I don’t have any morals. We have to get along with a scruple or two.” “I.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “To have a family is real strange,” said India thoughtfully. “All these people you wouldn’t have anything to do with except that they’re related to you.”

7. “To have a family is real strange,” said India thoughtfully. “All these people you wouldn’t have anything to do with except that they’re related to you.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference. Having.”

8. “Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference. Having.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “India had previously entertained no sympathy for the Southern way of life, with its pervasive friendliness, its offhanded viciousness, its overwhelming lassitude.”

9. “India had previously entertained no sympathy for the Southern way of life, with its pervasive friendliness, its offhanded viciousness, its overwhelming lassitude.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “You know what you should have done, added Luker, you should have ripped his balls off and stapled them to the back of his throat.”

10. “You know what you should have done, added Luker, you should have ripped his balls off and stapled them to the back of his throat.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual circumstance is discovered to be an established fact, they will usually accept it without rancor or judgment as part of the normal order of things.”

11. “Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual circumstance is discovered to be an established fact, they will usually accept it without rancor or judgment as part of the normal order of things.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “In the middle of the afternoon, when the heat was at its worst, having accumulated around the concrete since early in the morning, I had ten minutes or so of respite in my tiny office. The walls there were blistering. I could scarcely breathe. But I fled there as if it had been a cool, wet, autumn day inside. I was not looking for relief from the heat so much as relief from the crowds. They licked away my being with their idiot tongues.”

12. “In the middle of the afternoon, when the heat was at its worst, having accumulated around the concrete since early in the morning, I had ten minutes or so of respite in my tiny office. The walls there were blistering. I could scarcely breathe. But I fled there as if it had been a cool, wet, autumn day inside. I was not looking for relief from the heat so much as relief from the crowds. They licked away my being with their idiot tongues.”

— Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell Quote: “Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their backs with arms toss’d wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon. – Walt Whitman Sequel to Drum-Taps.”

13. “Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their backs with arms toss’d wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon. – Walt Whitman Sequel to Drum-Taps.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, “I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.”

14. “I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, “I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.”

— Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell Quote: “It’s bad when the dead talk in dreams,” said Odessa.”

15. “It’s bad when the dead talk in dreams,” said Odessa.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “I never worked on a farm, he told himself ruefully, but I think I know a vegetable when I see one.”

16. “I never worked on a farm, he told himself ruefully, but I think I know a vegetable when I see one.”

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Michael McDowell Quote: “To them all, Beldame represented the fair and possible reward for distress, misfortune, and labor in this world – it was to them a heaven on earth, and resembled the other, preached-of heaven in that it was bright, remote, timeless, and empty.”

17. “To them all, Beldame represented the fair and possible reward for distress, misfortune, and labor in this world – it was to them a heaven on earth, and resembled the other, preached-of heaven in that it was bright, remote, timeless, and empty.”

— Michael McDowell

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