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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

"Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult."

"I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn't admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love withthe way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be."
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"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."


"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."


"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."


"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"


"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."


"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."


"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
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