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.
PAT CONROYI don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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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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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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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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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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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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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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