Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
PAT CONROYI would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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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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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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