Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
PAT CONROYThe University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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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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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book,
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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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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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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Why 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?
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