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• Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.
• A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love…
• Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
• As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but…
• Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all…
• The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.
• I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
• The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
• From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out…
• The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward,…
• I've met little meanness, wherever I went.
• Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared…

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