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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
A good movie had never once affected me in the same life-changing way a good book could. Books had the power to alter my view of the world forever. A great movie could change my perceptions for a day.
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
I taught Leah how to tell where we were in the Campo by using her sense of smell. The south side was glazed with the smell of slain fish and no amount of water or broom-work could ever eliminate the tincture of ammonia scenting that part of the piazza. The fish had written their names in those stones. But so had the young lambs and the coffee beans and torn arugula and the glistening tiers of citrus and the bread baking that produced a golden brown perfume from the great ovens. I whispered to Leah that a sense of smell was better than a yearbook for imprinting the delicate graffiti of time in the memory.
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
It was a time in my life when many things bored me deeply and I hungered for beauty and those realms of pure elation granted to those who had the imagination to know what to look for and how to find it.
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
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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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide."
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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Pat Conroy _ Beach Music
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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