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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - [Education] There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. - [Books] The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy. - A Good Man Is Hard to Find [Books (First Lines)] Her doctor had told Julian's mother that she must lose twenty pounds on account of her blood pressure, so on Wednesday nights Julian had to take her downtown on the bus for a reducing class at the Y. - Everything That Rises Must Converge [Books (First Lines)] Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Savior at the head of the grave and enough dirt to keep the dogs from digging it up. - The Violent Bear It Away [Books (First Lines)] Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car. - Wise Blood [Books (First Lines)]
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