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snappy, rapid-fire speech
And that is how I met my wife.
rejection chastened me and let me know my proper place in the grand scheme of things. It was the last time I would ever make a move that required boldness or a leap of the imagination. I became tentative, suspicious, and dull.
I loved my English courses with a passion and could not believe how lucky I was to be living a life where my job was to read the greatest books ever written.
Our kids will have everything in the world.”
But SEAL, Tom. Do you remember what happened to the seal at that circus?
Poets look at words for signs and symbols. Forgive me, but I don’t believe Luke will survive the war.”
ask me to light a candle for the repose of the man’s soul whenever I got near the Cathedral in Savannah. We
behind him. He was picked up by an American patrol boat at eleven o’clock the next morning after being in the water for six and a half hours.
Luke had won a Silver Star and two Bronze Stars.
being born in Eden.”
colleton
We were not truly happy unless we were engaged in our own private war with the rest of the world.
The South died for me that day,
amos died
the secret wisdom that issues naturally from the contemplative life. His was a life of detachment from the material and the temporal.
As a boy I was embarrassed by the undiluted ardor he brought to worship. As an adult I would envy forever the simplicity and grandeur of his vision of what it was to be a complete and contributing man. His whole life was a compliance and a donation to an immaculate faith. When I wept at his funeral, it was not because of my own loss. You carry a man like Amos with you, a memory of immortal rose in the garden of the human ego. No, I cried because my children would never know him and I knew that I was not articulate enough in any language to describe the perfect solitude and perfect charity of a
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you always come down to South Carolina just waiting to tell me and Tom how to live our lives? He and I don’t breathe a word about how you live your life, but you got a thousand things to say about what we do. We were here saying goodbye to Grandpa and you’ve got to turn it into a group therapy session. If Mom is going to leave Dad, then that’s their business and it’ll be up to me and Tom to help get them through the best way we know how. You’ll be up in New York, calling us on the telephone, telling us what a shitty job o...
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collected Bach and Carolina beach music.
These hands had beaten me, but they had also worked for me, and I was a teacher because of them.
tremendous power in the leavened, pale-white body.
reese newberry unholy
they can spot a phony a mile away.” “I bet they can. Mirrors must drive them crazy,”
I have all the qualities that would make a dignified and worthy First Lady of our country.
Colleton would lead the world in the production of plutonium and would produce more hydrogen bombs than any place outside of the Soviet Union.
irony
words seemed dusted with bright and deadly motes of silica.
conroy inlove with words
Plutonium has nothing to do with peace. It is a code word for the Apocalypse,
Adam and Eve are still waiting to be born and that you and I are living in Paradise without even knowing it?
Book of Genesis is simply another parable,
“It was not an apple that Eve touched,” he said, and he paused. “I think that the forbidden fruit is plutonium.”
If they refuse to listen to us, then I believe a state of war should be declared.
that government don’t know shit. Government is mean. No matter what kind it is.
meek may yet inherit the earth, but they will not inherit Colleton.
terrible sense of priesthood obsessed him as he walked through the memorized woods of his childhood. He heard voices and began to see the faces of his family materialize
primitive men had worshiped deer as gods and painted them on the walls of caves as an act of ecstasy and prayer.
He felt the weight of that cross cutting into his shoulder,
man risen in spring,
cjist
heart-shaped fritter of land embedded like a sapphire in the dead center of the largest salt marsh
it’s a natural law and a sign of mental health when any woman can summon enough strength to hate her mother,”
“You’re smack in the middle of living an unexamined life and it’s going to catch up to you. That’s what I’m worried about.”
modern-day equivalent of Don Quixote,”
house had been the breeding ground of madness, poetry, courage, and an ineffable loyalty. Our childhood had been harsh but also relentlessly interesting.
we began to forgive our parents for being exactly what they were meant to be.
no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
Whenever Big Money goes up against the Environment, Big Money always wins. It’s an American law, like
He did not know how to disengage from the struggle
He could not force his century to make sense and he could find no place for himself within it.
2o centuy great changes
veneration of the land
the good earth
