One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
PAT CONROYThen 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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Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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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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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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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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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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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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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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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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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Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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