Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
PAT CONROYBut even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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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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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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