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"The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man."
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"Don't be afraid to live life. There is grace for the living."
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"We cannot hope to change a nation without facing trials and persecution in the process."
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"Fight for your dreams with all your strength, soul and spirit."
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"Go forward and conquer any mountain on your path."
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"Do not let the fear of unknown deter you from trying. Keep trying until you succeed."
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"[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a thousand times in these dark days when satanic forces are at work."
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"In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment."
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"Dreams come true if we can overcome the fear of failure and pursue them."
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"Sometimes you don't even know how strong you are, the devil sees it before you do and attacks."
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"You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing."
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"Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the minor elevation," "the lavabo," "the apparition of Lourdes," and hundreds more. Latin deposited the dark minerals of its rhythms on the shelves of my spoken language. You may find the harmonics of the Common of the Mass in every book I've ever written. Because I was raised Roman Catholic, I never feared taking any unchaperoned walks through the fields of language. Words lifted me up and filled me with pleasure."
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"The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself."
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"She had a grocer's faith in books, they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts."
Faith
"The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl."
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"I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them."
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"These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart."
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"Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny."
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"I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta."
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"Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling."
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"Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air."
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