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I've met little meanness, wherever I went.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Littles
Meanness
Mets
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Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.
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The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.
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Sound
Stories
Storytelling
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Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.
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Cities
Civilization
Permanent Things
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The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.
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Destructive
Tornadoes
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What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.
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Life
Work
Long
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I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
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Mystique
Southern
Thinking
Fair
Fair Amount
Southerners
Talked
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Fiction
Reading
Re-Reading
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Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.
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Heart
Life Is Short
World
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Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed
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Brands
Hair
Sunrise
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Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Healing
World
Writing
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Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Lice
Monkeys
Way
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As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Children
Cities
Mother
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The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Art
Children
Funeral
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From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Age
Artist
Copies
Painter
World
Meant
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Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women
Reynolds Price / Poet
Children
Father
Thinking
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Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Feminism
Gains
Involving
Our Lives
Even Now
Fathers
Formative
Presence
Rearing
Virtually
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Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Cells
Heart
Hurt
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You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Athletic
Matter
Trying
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A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
Reynolds Price / Poet
Home
Opposites
Silence
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