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.
PAT CONROYLove’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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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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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.
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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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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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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.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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