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sharing is the secret of civilization.
Josephine Humphreys / Novelist
Civilization
Secret
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But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.
Josephine Humphreys / Novelist
Empathy
Mood
Needs
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People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.
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People
Should
World
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When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.
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May
Mean
People
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You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.
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Gestures
Past
Persons
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Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.
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Her Beauty
Looking Good
Stills
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You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.
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Mind
Moving
Suicide
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I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.
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Butterfly
Children
Justice
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Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.
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Book
Eye
Heart
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People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.
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Dream
Girl
Grief
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You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.
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Jobs
Children
Mother
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How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.
Josephine Humphreys / Novelist
Book
Memories
Moving
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