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.
PAT CONROYWe, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
PAT CONROYThe English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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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 mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
PAT CONROYThe mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
PAT CONROYI’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
PAT CONROYTeach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
PAT CONROYMan wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
PAT CONROYLaughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
PAT CONROYEach of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
PAT CONROYI discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
PAT CONROYCarolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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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.
PAT CONROYThen, 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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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
PAT CONROYMusic could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
PAT CONROYWe, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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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.
PAT CONROYShe 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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