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From Quotes by Pat Conroy
- To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush…
- She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them.…
- I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
- The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
- From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with…
- It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all…
- Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
- …Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that…
- Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break…
- 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,…
- Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies…
- 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…
- Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the…
- Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman…
- We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister,…
- 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.
- A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to…
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