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.
PAT CONROYMy wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak-and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…
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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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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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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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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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The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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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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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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