One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
PAT CONROYWithout music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Carolina 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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Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak-and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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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 loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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