I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
PAT CONROYIn Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Good writing … 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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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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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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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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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book,
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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