The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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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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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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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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William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book,
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Then, 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.
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Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
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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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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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