I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
PAT CONROYEvil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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 discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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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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