Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
PAT CONROYThe 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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