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Famous Quotes By Kaye Gibbons

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You can rest with me until somebody comes to get you. We will not say anything. We can rest. — Kaye Gibbons

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Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody. — Kaye Gibbons

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Unless society came out past Flat Rock Crossroads, kept on past Booker T. High School, hung two rights, a left, turned in on Milk Farm Road and found Roland plowing a tobacco field, jerked him off the tractor, warped him and set him back up there without anybody riding by and noticing, blame can't be laid on society. — Kaye Gibbons

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I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep. — Kaye Gibbons

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The man in her dream would ride up and surprise her on his horse ... saying her beauty pierced such a great place in his heart. — Kaye Gibbons

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But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun. — Kaye Gibbons

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The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken ... out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive. — Kaye Gibbons

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Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes. — Kaye Gibbons

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Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least. — Kaye Gibbons

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I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident. — Kaye Gibbons

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I've read two books a week for 30 years ... I'm satisfied I know everything. — Kaye Gibbons

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I am a great believer in variations on the routine. — Kaye Gibbons

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In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn't be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you're doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it's done ... . — Kaye Gibbons

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You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life. — Kaye Gibbons

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That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so? — Kaye Gibbons

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I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself. — Kaye Gibbons

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Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second? — Kaye Gibbons

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You'll find your one-in-a-million. But you're sharp enough to know there's no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him. — Kaye Gibbons

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I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way. — Kaye Gibbons

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This has been such a glorious afternoon
my heart would not weep if I did not live to see another. — Kaye Gibbons

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It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on. — Kaye Gibbons