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.
PAT CONROYMy 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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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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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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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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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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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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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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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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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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