A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
A story untold could be the one that kills you.
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.
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.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.
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
Honor is the presence of God in man.
Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
I don't believe in happy families.
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
I've never had anyone's approval, so I've learned to live without it.
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.
Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
Man wonders but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides.
When to kill the Prince of Tides.
Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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.
Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.
Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.
Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.".
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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.
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.
When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.
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