But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
PAT CONROYHonor is the presence of God in man.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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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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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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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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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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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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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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