My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
PAT CONROYCarolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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I 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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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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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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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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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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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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