"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

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"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."

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"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."

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"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

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"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look."

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"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."

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"My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be."

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"I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation."

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"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."

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"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."

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