Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
PAT CONROYLaughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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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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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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