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.
PAT CONROYLike everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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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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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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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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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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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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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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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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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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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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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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