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Ellen Gilchrist
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“Everyone in New Orleans that can afford it gets buried in mausoleums. That's one good thing about living there.”
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“A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.”
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“We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.”
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“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind is bearing me across the sky.”
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“Dance in the fullness of time.”
Ellen Gilchrist, U.S. writer, poet
(1935)