#billy

Me and George and Billy are two of a kind. ↗

— Mickey Rivers

#george #kind #me #two

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#finish #get #hillbilly #i #inspired

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin’ wide in the turns. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#grim #hard-boiled #hard-life #hillbilly-noir #life-sucks-then-you-die

If Arkansas is, indeed, one big family, Eureka Springs remains its eccentric uncle. ↗

— Rex Nelson

#humor #family

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. ↗

— Herman Melville

#herman-melville #innocence #intelligence #sailor #intelligence