The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
PAT CONROYWithout music, life is a journey through a desert.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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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There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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