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We spent our entire childhoods in the service of our country, and no one even knew we were there.
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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.
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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.
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I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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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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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
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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 the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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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.
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Pat Conroy
Born:
October 26, 1945
Died:
March 4, 2016
(aged 70)
Bio:
Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films.
Known for:
The Prince of Tides (1986)
The Great Santini (1976)
Beach Music (1995)
The Death of Santini (2013)
The Lords of Discipline (1980)
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