South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
PAT CONROYPolitical correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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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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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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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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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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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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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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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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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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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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