Kaye Gibbons Quotes

#1. I've read two books a week for 30 years ... I'm satisfied I know everything.

Kaye Gibbons

#2. It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

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#3. In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn't be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you're doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it's done ... .

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#4. I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

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#5. You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

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#6. But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

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#7. Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

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#8. Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

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#9. I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.

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#10. I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

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#11. This has been such a glorious afternoon
my heart would not weep if I did not live to see another.

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#12. The man in her dream would ride up and surprise her on his horse ... saying her beauty pierced such a great place in his heart.

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#13. You'll find your one-in-a-million. But you're sharp enough to know there's no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

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#14. You can rest with me until somebody comes to get you. We will not say anything. We can rest.

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#15. I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself.

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#16. The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken ... out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.

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#17. Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

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#18. Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

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