"I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American."

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kwame Dawes

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“He who travels much has this advantage over others â€“ that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage â€“ that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.”

Source : Giacomo Leopardi (2002). “Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]”, Hesperus Press
“The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.”
“I listen to my own heart, stand for only that. That's it.”
“The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.”
“A good cover has a distinct silhouette”

Source : Kent Steine, J. C. Leyendecker, Frederic B. Taraba (1996). “The J.C. Leyendecker collection: American illustrators poster book”
“I'd be the first one to tell you that I would like to think that I had called timeout before that. I can't imagine that I did not. I can't tell you that I did, and that's my issue.”
“It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.”
“After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.”

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