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What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it. -- Lee Smith
It's true that when anyone dies, the other dead rise up abd die all over again. -- Lee Smith
If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me. -- Lee Smith
To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all.
I don't even want good things anymore. I just want nothing. -- Lee Smith
People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between. -- Lee Smith
I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to Chapel Hill for summer school and just loved it. -- Lee Smith
But I would do it all again, every bit of it, I would lose him again just to have him again for an hour, for a minute, for even a second. I would do it all again just to see his face. -- Lee Smith
Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end? -- Lee Smith
Pearl is the only person I ever knew who said things like "paths in life" out loud. -- Lee Smith
Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone. -- Lee Smith
An image comes to Russell: we drift through the world like dandelion puffs on the wind, we spread our seed and disappear, and the world doesn't care. The world doesn't even notice. The world is not about us. Finally -- Lee Smith
For in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing. -- Lee Smith
And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing. -- Lee Smith
They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you. -- Lee Smith
I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say. -- Lee Smith
God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir. -- Lee Smith
I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other. -- Lee Smith
This point I could not show myself, of course, or all would -- Lee Smith
And are we not all "mere guests" upon this whirling earth? -- Lee Smith
For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy. -- Lee Smith
I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die. -- Lee Smith
I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves. -- Lee Smith
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this. -- Lee Smith
People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones. -- Lee Smith
For once I am living my life rather than watching it pass in review. -- Lee Smith
Oh, I was young then, and I walked in my body like a Queen. -- Lee Smith
I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone's total global embrace of technology. -- Lee Smith
Perhaps any life is such: different stories like different strands, each distinct in itself, each true, yet wound together to form one rope, one life. -- Lee Smith
The state of my nerves precludes any more active an existence -- Lee Smith
Oh, if our children actually knew how much we love them, they'd never be able to hit any of these balls, they'd be simply immobilized by the force of it, by the awful force of our love. -- Lee Smith
Now courting's a pleasure, and parting is grief, but a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief! -- Lee Smith
Not how much, but how well, is our motto. -- Lee Smith
Then I started crying for it seemed to me then that life is nothing but people leaving. -- Lee Smith
Nothing is ever over, nothing is ever ended, and worlds open up within the world we know. -- Lee Smith