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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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“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
― The Fall of Atlantis
― The Fall of Atlantis
“She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.”
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Wise Blood
― Wise Blood
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