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- We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a…
- Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them…
- ...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own…
- She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them.…
- American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do,…
- But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
- She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison,…
- Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read…
- Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the…
- These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of…
- I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
- Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull…
- Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
- Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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