Pat Conroy quotes

Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert. (Pat Conroy)
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal. View quote
Pat Conroy
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey. View quote
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. View quote
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do. View quote
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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough. View quote
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides. View quote
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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. (Pat Conroy)
There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. View quote
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Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. View quote
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise. View quote
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention. View quote
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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. View quote
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. View quote
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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. View quote
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue. View quote
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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men. View quote
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself. (Pat Conroy)
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws. View quote
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. View quote
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. View quote
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. View quote
Pat Conroy