Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
PAT CONROYWhen mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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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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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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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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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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 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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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Good writing … 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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