Honor is the presence of God in man.
PAT CONROYThen, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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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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One does not know where love will take you.
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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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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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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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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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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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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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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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