Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
PAT CONROYWhy 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?
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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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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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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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