Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
PAT CONROYExcept for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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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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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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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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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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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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Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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