The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
PAT CONROYCharleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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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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The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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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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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Political 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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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.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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