My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
PAT CONROYWithout music, life is a journey through a desert.
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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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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My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.
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William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book,
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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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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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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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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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Red 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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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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