Reynolds Price Quotes

#1. The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

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#2. Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

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#3. From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

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#4. Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

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#5. As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

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#6. I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

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#7. Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

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#8. Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

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#9. The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

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#10. Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women.

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#11. The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

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#12. The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

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#13. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

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#14. Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation - potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.

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#15. Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

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#16. What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

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