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  1. Pat Conroy _ My Reading Life

    According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace.
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  2. Pat Conroy _ The Water is Wide

    Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name.
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  3. Pat Conroy _ The Lords of Discipline

    It both surprised and angered me that {they} had reached a consensus of agreement against me. The way I looked at the world, enemies criticized and friends affirmed.
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  4. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Even then, her interior life was far more important to her than her external one.
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  5. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood.
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  6. Pat Conroy _ The Water is Wide

    And in that instant was born the terrible awareness that life eventually broke every man, but in different ways and at different times.
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  7. Pat Conroy _ My Losing Season: A Memoir

    The words "I love you" could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen gulag, all the lurid sadness of death row.
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  8. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.
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  9. Pat Conroy _ The Lords of Discipline

    I loved these salt rivers more than I loved the sea; I loved the movement of tides more than I loved the fury of surf. Something in me was congruent with this land, something affirmed when I witnessed the startled, piping rush of shrimp or the flash of starlight on the scales of mullet. I could feel myself relax and change whenever I returned to the lowcountry and saw the vast green expanses of marsh, feminine as lace, delicate as calligraphy. The lowcountry had its own special ache and sting.
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  10. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
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  11. Pat Conroy _ The Lords of Discipline

    I had come to Charleston as a young boy, a lonely visitor slouching through its well-tended streets, a young boy, lean and grassy, who grew fluent in his devotion and appreciation of that city's inestimable charm. I was a boy there and saw things through the eyes of a boy for the last time. The boy was dying and I wanted to leave him in the silent lanes South of Broad.I would leave him with no regrets except that I had not stopped to honor his passing. I had not thanked the boy for his capacity for astonishment, for curiosity, and for survival. I was indebted to that boy. I owed him my respect and my thanks. I owed him my remembrance of the lessons he learned so keenly and so ominously.
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  12. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    it had been a winter of deadening seriousness, when all the illusions and bright dreams of my early twenties had withered and died. I did not yet have the interior resources to dream new dreams; I was far too busy mourning the death of the old ones and wondering how I was to survive without them. I was sure I could replace them somehow , but was not sure I could restore their brassy luster or dazzling impress .
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