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Reynolds Price

(1933–2011) Writer United States

23 quotes in 131 categories

Reynolds Price was a writer from the United States, best known for A long and happy life.

Quick Facts About Reynolds Price

Born: February 1, 1933
Died: January 20, 2011
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: A long and happy life

About Reynolds Price

Edward Reynolds Price was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in Biblical scholarship. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Lambda Literary Award Rhodes Scholarship Guggenheim Fellowship Lillian Smith Book Award North Carolina Award North Carolina Award for Literature National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Quotes by Reynolds Price

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair…

Brands

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You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's…

Athletic

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“Almost all of my really good times have been silent but have had to end.”

Good times

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Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

Cities

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Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

Good morning

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“In the next long minute, he felt an understanding spread deep down inside him, an understanding that he'd only felt with animals…

Learning

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The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

Destructive

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“Every other way is like that -- him waiting for something to happen to him, daring somebody to do something nice such…

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What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have…

Asks

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From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out…

Age

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I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

Amount

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As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but…

Boring

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Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born…

Born

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Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

Healing

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Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared…

Asks

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I've met little meanness, wherever I went.

Inspirational

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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Fiction

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“Did I think then, or do I believe later, that the vision was in any sense a direct call to me from…

Dreams

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A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love…

Accounts

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Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Cruelty

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The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Dominant

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The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward,…

Arrangements

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Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all…

Children

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