A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
PAT CONROYEvil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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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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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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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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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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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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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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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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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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