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Reynolds Price Quotes

Reynolds Price quotes

American Novelist February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011

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Reynolds Price quote: "Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it..."
Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder. Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price quote: "Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise..."
Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price quote: "The happiness of others. He adored them through tears."
The happiness of others. He adored them through tears. Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price quote: "Almost all of my really good times have been silent but have..."
Almost all of my really good times have been silent but have had to end. Reynolds Price
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. Reynolds Price
In the next long minute, he felt an understanding spread deep down inside him, an understanding that he'd only felt with animals before--with poor old Hilda and the hawks he'd seen in tall bare trees and that buck deer, long ago in the woods, that spoke Ben's name and told him the world was a fine place to live, hard but fine. Reynolds Price
Every other way is like that -- him waiting for something to happen to him, daring somebody to do something nice such as come up and touch him just so he could say, 'Why in the world did you do that?' and hold on tight till whoever bothered him vanished -- and nothing about him since has ever surprised me. Reynolds Price
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. Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price quote: "The older I've got the less I find myself going back and..."
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price quote: "I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey..."
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price quote: "Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you."
Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you. Reynolds Price
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. Reynolds Price

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