She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
PAT CONROYOne does not know where love will take you.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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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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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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