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We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.

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When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

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A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.

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Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

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The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

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No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

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I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 8th, 1896

Died: December 14th, 1953

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