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.
PAT CONROYThere are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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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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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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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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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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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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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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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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