The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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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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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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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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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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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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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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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