Allan Gurganus is an American novelist born on June 11, 1947. His works are known for their delicate emotional portrayal and profound social insight, focusing mainly on the life and culture of the American South.
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“Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
“Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.”
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“You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.”