I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
PAT CONROY
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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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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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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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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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak-and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
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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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