My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
PAT CONROYI was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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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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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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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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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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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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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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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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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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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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