"Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story."

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Source : Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Erskine Caldwell

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“Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.”
“When I became a Christian my confidence grew.”
“The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the ***** are identical. Extreme ***** anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.”

Source : Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”
“I wouldnt mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal.”
“I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.”
“Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.”

Source : Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain
“Surely as a man may say of a rock--nothing more quiet, because it is never stirred; and yet nothing more unquiet, because it is ever assaulted--so we may say of the church--nothing more peaceable, because it is established upon a rock; and yet nothing more unpeaceable, because that rock is in the midst of seas, winds, enemies, and persecutions.”

Source : Edward Reynolds (1837). “An Explication of the Hundred and Tenth Psalm: Wherein the Several Heads of Christian Religion Therein Contained, Touching the Exaltation of Christ, the Sceptre of His Kingdom, the Character of His Subjects, His Priesthood, Victories, Sufferings, and Resurrection, are Explained and Applied”, p.217
“"This is Lakshmi Singh." It's like a tadpole dying in muck. Take a drink. Wet your mouth.”

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