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“The only person who can really hurt you in life,” she would write, many years later, “is a husband.”
“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
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“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
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“It’s a luxury to be the owner of one’s time. I think it’s one of the greatest luxuries human beings can afford themselves.”
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― Fresh Water for Flowers
“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
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“I reckon Southern writers are a lot like biscuit makers...more than one can give ya a good feed.”
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