“When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes

A Better Son/Daughter
Song lyrics, The Execution of All Things (2003)

“He didn't curl his lip because it had been curled when he came in.”
Source: The High Window (1942), chapter 3

Y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el cerebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 1 (tr. Samuel Putnam).

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Quoted in "Feeling Rejected? Join Updike, Mailer, Oates..." by Barbara Bauer and Robert F. Moss, New York Times (21 July 1985), section 7, page 1, column 1
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