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To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

Dennis Covington
Writing, Toes, Imagine
Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.226, Da Capo Press

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Dennis Covington
Mystery, Absence

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

Dennis Covington
Suicide, Knowing, Where You Come
Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.236, Da Capo Press

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Dennis Covington
Heart, Profound, Stories
Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.174, Da Capo Press

An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic.

Dennis Covington
Fall, Believe, Writing

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