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Birthdate March 25, 1925

Zodiac Aries

Location Savannah, Georgia

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

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She would of been a good woman,

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Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

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His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.

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Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.

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We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

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If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

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Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

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I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

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Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

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