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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

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Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

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Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism. . . the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

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While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

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Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.

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The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient. . . but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

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If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

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