And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
PAT CONROYThe great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book,
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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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. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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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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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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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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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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