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...Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found a pleasure to watch and a pain to mimic.
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In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my hands on a sunlit ice floe than try to coax fire from the books they carve from glaciers.
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I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.
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I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class
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I lit a cigarette and began puffing on it as I drank one quick beer after another. I was neither a drinker nor a smoker nor a fighter, but I had planned to be all three on this day.
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The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
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The whole construct of my universe was a cunning, entangled network of lies. I had to start over again. I knew that. And I had to begin by ceasing to loathe myself for my difference from the rest.
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Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success -- Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides)
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.
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The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.
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Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.
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And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide.
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Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.
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Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight
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Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles.
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She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.
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I take it as an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.
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There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.
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...I realize words are never enough; they stutter and cleave to the roof of my mouth.
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The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.
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I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
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