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.
PAT CONROY
Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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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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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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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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