Alice McDermott quoteAlice McDermott [1953-0]
American Writer 
Quote rank: 306
| Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears. |
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