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" My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood. "

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" The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. "

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" I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate. "

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" A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground. "

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" I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character. "

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