I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
PAT CONROYMama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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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.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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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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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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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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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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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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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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