I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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More Pat Conroy Quotes
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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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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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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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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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.
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You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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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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Losing 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.
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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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Good writing … involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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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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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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