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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It 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.

Pat Conroy

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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Everything Knew
When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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Dad Mom Only Prisoners Took Went When
There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Discriminating More No
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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Afterimage Camera Crime Against Imprint Irreversible Itself Memory Neagtaive Obscura Rape
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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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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Carolina Carry Sunshine Dark Ink Island Low Raised
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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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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Could Early Knew More never One South Southern Them Fragrant
Honor is the presence of God in man.

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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Honor
You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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Asleep Down Happy Portion Quicker Word
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.

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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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Both End Feel Few Thing Indwelling Linger Longer
I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Defensible Found Paranoia Perfectly Position
I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

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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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Given Inexhaustible Made Word
I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.

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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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never Parent
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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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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Ever Explain North Simply Tacky Word
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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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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Camera Else Lifesaver Nowhere Shy Very
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Agony Form Hardest Involves Lucid Profoundly Think
Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Eloquent Lie Most

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