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Pat Conroy quotes about music

American Writer October 26, 1945

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I loved county fairs in the South. It was hard to believe that anything could be so consistently cheap and showy and vulgar year after year. each year I thought that at least one class act would force its way into a booth or sideshow, but I was always mistaken. The lure of the fair was the perfect harmony of its joyous decadence, its burned-out dishonored vulgarity, its riot of colors and smells, its jangling, tawdry music, and its wicked glimpse into the outlaw life of hucksters, tattoo... Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert."
Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "Without music, life is a journey through a desert."
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. Pat Conroy
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a..."
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. Pat Conroy
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 first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or... Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that..."
I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch...."
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. Pat Conroy

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