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 CONROYHumanity is best described as inhumanity.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
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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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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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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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