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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them.
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