"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."

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"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."

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Illusion

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"I am a fan of history."

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"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it."

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"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."

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"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."

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