You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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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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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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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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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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Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
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