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"I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told."
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"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life."


"Your subconscious mind is the universal mind with a universal consciousness."


"Absolute is infinite so there is no absolute truth. There is truth that you can see in infinite ways and make your own."


"Every aspect of your life will be enlivened when you start to think and communicate with your heart and mind in cohesive coordinated harmony."


"Think about yourself because no one has time to think about you. Everyone is busy thinking about themselves."


"I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known."


"I don't know who you are or where you are, but I know your deep driving desires. I am writing to you to make your life a little easier and better."


"There are two kinds of people:those who learned to love and those who didn't."


"Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison."


"I came to this world to bloom and spread my love to fill the world with happiness."
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"Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill Clinton would never have become who he was without the shining example of Martin Luther King. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Fritz Hollings and Richard and Joe Riley. Imagine this: you're a little white kid and you watch firehoses turned on people who don't seem to be hurting anyone, and fierce dogs being tuned on young men who carry signs about freedom. We white kids grew up watching movies and TV and guess what we had learned to do? We had learned to tell the good guys from the bad guys."

"If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me."

"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."

"it had been a winter of deadening seriousness, when all the illusions and bright dreams of my early twenties had withered and died. I did not yet have the interior resources to dream new dreams; I was far too busy mourning the death of the old ones and wondering how I was to survive without them. I was sure I could replace them somehow , but was not sure I could restore their brassy luster or dazzling impress ."

"Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth."

"You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves."
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