I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
PAT CONROYThere is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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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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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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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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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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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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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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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.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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