Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
PAT CONROYI loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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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 mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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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 University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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