I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
PAT CONROYI’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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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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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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We die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It 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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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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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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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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