Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
PAT CONROYOne does not know where love will take you.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak-and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…
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Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
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Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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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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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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