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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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