Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
PAT CONROYLosing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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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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