The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
PAT CONROYDo 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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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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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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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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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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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.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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