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For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face. ↗
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No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. Their words are lush like the land they come from, filled with nine aunties, people named Bubba. There is something extravagant and wild about what they have to say — snakes on the roof of a car, swamps, a delta, sweat, the smell of sea, buzz of an air conditioner, Coca-Cola — something fertile, with a hidden danger or shame, thick like the humidity, unspoken yet ever-present. Often when a southerner reads, the members of the class look at each other, and you can hear them thinking, gee, I can't write like that. The power and force of the land is heard in the piece. These southerners know the names of what shrubs hang over what creek, what dogwood flowers bloom what color, what kind of soil is under their feet. I tease the class, "Pay no mind. It's the southern writing gene. The rest of us have to toil away. ↗
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In the essence of truth lies deceit. ↗
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From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say. ↗
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Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers. ↗
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We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗
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Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. ↗
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Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. ↗
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