Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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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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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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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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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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