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.
PAT CONROYEvil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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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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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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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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