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“But the book! The siren song of the book!”
― Witnessing
― Witnessing
“The South is a strange place, one that can't be fit inside a movie, a place that dares you to simplify it, like a prime number, like a Bible story, like my father.”
― The World's Largest Man
― The World's Largest Man
“Just look what happens to poets," I used to tell my honors class on the first day of school. "Half the time they go mad. And you know why I think that happens? Too much truth distilled to its essence, all surrounding evidence ignored or discarded. And I'm not faulting them for that.”
― Safe from the Neighbors
― Safe from the Neighbors
“I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.”
― The Courting of Marcus Dupree
― The Courting of Marcus Dupree
“Sometimes you just need a book near you and you can't explain why.”
― Revolution
― Revolution
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