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.
PAT CONROYOnce you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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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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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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One does not know where love will take you.
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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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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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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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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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