But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
PAT CONROYCameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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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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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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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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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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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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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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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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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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