One does not know where love will take you.
PAT CONROYThe Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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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 believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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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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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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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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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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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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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
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