The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
PAT CONROYRed 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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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.
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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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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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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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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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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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