Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
PAT CONROYBut even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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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.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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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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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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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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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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