I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
PAT CONROYRape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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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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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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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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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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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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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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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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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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