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“I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'” quote by Pat Conroy — Download Open image

“I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'”

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Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

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“My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.”

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“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the minor elevation," "the lavabo," "the apparition of Lourdes," and hundreds more. Latin deposited the dark minerals of its rhythms on the shelves of my spoken language. You may find the harmonics of the Common of the…

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