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- How Charles Portis Got Made: On Escape Velocity by Bill Morris](http://25.media.tumblr.com/19145384567d8f6565c9d24a38a3f56b/tumblr_mg1vgptIc11r6xvfko1_400.jpg)
“Here lies the key to [Charles] Portis’s success as a novelist: he feels tremendous tenderness for every one of his characters, like the forbearing father of some unruly but loveable brood.”
- How Charles Portis Got Made: On Escape Velocity by Bill Morris
