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.
PAT CONROY- The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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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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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
PAT CONROYI’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
PAT CONROYThe English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
PAT CONROYOnce you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
PAT CONROYI loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROYWithout music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Cameras 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.
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.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
PAT CONROYI would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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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.
PAT CONROYRape 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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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.
PAT CONROYGood 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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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
PAT CONROYEvil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
PAT CONROYRed Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
PAT CONROYTell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
PAT CONROYCarolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
PAT CONROYWriting is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
PAT CONROYMan wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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