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/ page 1021 of 1205 /I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle 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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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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