I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
PAT CONROYExcept for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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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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Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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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.
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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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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
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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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