My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
PAT CONROYMusic could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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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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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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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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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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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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