And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.
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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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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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