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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I said to one of my students a couple of years ago, what is it with you people You never get off the phone to one another, you travel through whole continents to be with one another for 14 hours. And he said, Mr. Price, we had to invent families of our own, our own families disappeared.Reynolds Price
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
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Everybody was there. A bachelor aunt or uncle. You would all come to the table, even some stone-deaf member of the family, usually the oldest ... and he would mumble something under his breath.
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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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