I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
PAT CONROYBaseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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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.
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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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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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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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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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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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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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