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Pat Conroy quotes

American Writer October 26, 1945

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Pat Conroy quote: "The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree..."
The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience. Pat Conroy
Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach..."
Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success -- Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides) Pat Conroy
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams. Pat Conroy
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "I was the only person in the world who thought it was a..."
I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "I'm sorry your bad dream died," I said as I left her and..."
I'm sorry your bad dream died," I said as I left her and walked toward the gate. "And I'm sorry I ever met you, Annie Kate. Pat Conroy
My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own witness, each with a separate version of culture and history, and the divine essential fire that is poetry itself. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were..."
When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all."
Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too..."
She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope. Pat Conroy
Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the minor elevation," "the lavabo," "the apparition of Lourdes," and hundreds more. Latin deposited the dark minerals of its rhythms on the shelves of my spoken language. You may find the harmonics of the Common of the Mass in every book I've ever written. Because I was raised Roman Catholic, I never feared taking any unchaperoned walks... 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
Pat Conroy quote: "Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything,..."
Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word. Pat Conroy

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