One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
PAT CONROYI do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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Good writing … involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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