I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
PAT CONROYAnyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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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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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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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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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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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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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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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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