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“Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.”

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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

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Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

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“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers and Mike.…

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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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Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.

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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

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