I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
PAT CONROYI had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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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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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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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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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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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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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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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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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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.
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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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