Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
PAT CONROYTell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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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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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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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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