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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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A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

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

Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price

Reynolds Price

Born: February 1, 1933

Died: January 20, 2011 (aged 77)

Bio: Edward Reynolds Price was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in Biblical scholarship.

Known for:

A long and happy life (1960)
A whole new life (1994)
Roxanna Slade (1998)
Kate Vaiden (1986)
Three Gospels (1996)

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