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With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history. ↗

— John Moody

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Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. ↗

— John Moody

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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. ↗

— Rick Moody

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I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. ↗

— Rick Moody

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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. ↗

— Rick Moody

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I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. ↗

— Rick Moody

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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. ↗

— Rick Moody

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It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be. ↗

— Rick Moody

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It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more. ↗

— Rick Moody

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Literature precedes genre. ↗

— Rick Moody

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