Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
PAT CONROYSilence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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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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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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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. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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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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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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