Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
PAT CONROYA family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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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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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 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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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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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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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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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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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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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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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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