I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
PAT CONROY
When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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 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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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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