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.
PAT CONROYHonor is the presence of God in man.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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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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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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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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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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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
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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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