Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
PAT CONROYOne of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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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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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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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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