Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
PAT CONROYAnd when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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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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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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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.
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We die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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