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.
PAT CONROYOne can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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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.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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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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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
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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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