478 Quotes by Pat Conroy


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    Graham is as Southern as black-eyed peas, scuppernong wine, she-crab soup, Crimson Tide tailgating and a dog with ticks. She is so relentlessly Southern she makes me feel that I was born in Minnesota!

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    Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

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    Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

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    We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

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    Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

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