Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
PAT CONROYOnce I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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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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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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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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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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One does not know where love will take you.
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We die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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