Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
PAT CONROYBooks are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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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 even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
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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’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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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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One does not know where love will take you.
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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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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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