I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
PAT CONROYHere is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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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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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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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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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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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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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It 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 was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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