Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
PAT CONROYPolitical 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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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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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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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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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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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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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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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.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book,
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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