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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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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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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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End never Once Travel Voyage
You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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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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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Explain Have Life Myself Only Write
A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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Book Bookstore Burn Hand Inside Jacket Lock Next Pass Touch When Without
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.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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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Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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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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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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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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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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