My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
PAT CONROYCharleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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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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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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