Wright Thompson Quotes

This guy is handier than a pocket in a shirt.

Music is often the kingdom the dead inhabits in our soul.

Perhaps it is almost justice, dad, that we should have to go through war every so often to pay for the peace years.

You drink expensive bourbon and then you piss it out. No getting around that.

All writing is trying to say something new that is true, that is both specific and universal, and that helps the reader understand something they didn't understand before, preferably about themselves.

Sometimes I worry we've already made our decisions and have no hope of undoing them.

the game always the same no matter how much the men who love it change, a simplicity that waits day after day, beautiful and addictive.

None of this happens without Mama & Daddy. They raised me with curiosity, confidence, and empathy, the three most important traits in my line of work.

He doesn’t inspire selfies as much as handshakes.

I've learned in the past three years that I did many things solely to tell Daddy about them later.

never feel jealous of other people’s success, and to try to see the best in people and to have empathy for whatever might be causing or fueling their worst behaviors.

A cult is built on believing the absurd if the absurd justifies the cult.

The hidden history of Kentucky is everywhere, relics of the booms and busts of people who tried to grab a piece of that permanence only to have it slip through their fingers. Most of these farms are owned by someone who made a breathtaking amount of money doing something else. In the rush of their pruchase, most never stopped ot think that they were probably buying from someone who'd lost a similarly breathtaking fortune. Nearly every horse farm comes with the silent warning of the construction magnate who took on one project too many, the coal baron who couldn't survive his industry's decline, the industrialist family that burned through its inheritance.

The newspaper reporter summed up the rhetoric “on segregation all candidates agree, they support it….all five candidates tried to prove they were more racist than their opponents, a sprint to the bottom. All promising to take any measure to stop the most dangerous and immediate threat to the Mississippi way of life-which apparently was a black child who wanted to learn math. All of Hannibal’s elephants and Genghis Khan’s hordes lacked the world-destroying power of a bunch of first graders learning the alphabet and how to stay in line during the walk from recess to lunch”.

That’s what Patterson Hood called the “Duality of the Southern Thing.