There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
PAT CONROYThe Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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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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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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We die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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