A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
PAT CONROYOne of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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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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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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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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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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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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