If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
PAT CONROYCarolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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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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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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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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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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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