QUOTES by Pat Conroy
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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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I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.
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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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We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.
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Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.
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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.
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It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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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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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.
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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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He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
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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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A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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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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Anyone 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.
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These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
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We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.
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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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