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Quote by Kaye Gibbons

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

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Kaye Gibbons is an American novelist born on May 5, 1960. Her works are known for their delicate emotions and profound social insights, mainly exploring themes of family, love, and identity recognition. more

“You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.”

World Want Needs Giving Children Enough Whole Jobs Mother Force Majors Independence Whole Life Your Children Need You

Author:Josephine Humphreys

“sharing is the secret of civilization.”

Secret Civilization

Author:Josephine Humphreys

“music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.”

People Two Culture Language Differences Music Evoke Abolish Indestructible

Book:Suite Francaise, a Novel

Source: Suite Francaise, a Novel

“I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.”

People Looks Music Instruments Musical Musical Instruments

Author:Elizabeth Swados

“music / I let it wake me / take me / Spin me around and make me / Uh get down.”

Music Take Me

Author:Eloise Greenfield

“I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.”

Way Music

Author:Eloise Greenfield

“I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from the South /'Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But honey, let me tell you that I love the way he talks.”

Knows Way Kind Whole Causes Walks Talking Mouths Let Me South Honey Cousin Slides My Cousin

Author:Eloise Greenfield

“Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.”

Home Music Jazz Hunger

Author:Dianne Reeves

“From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.”

Thinking Music Peaceful Throat Hollow Reeds

Author:Alice Smith

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