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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."
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"I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept."

"Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."

"You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man's heart, and a man's failings " I'll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes 'em like all of us. You were an emotional cripple, leaning on him, getting answers from him, assuming that your answers would always be his answers."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it."
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