The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
PAT CONROYI 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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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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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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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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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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