Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
PAT CONROY
And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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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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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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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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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak-and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
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My 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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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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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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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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