"South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult."

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Source : Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.61, Nan A. Talese

Pat Conroy

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“I as an astrophysicist, see the universe, feel the universe, smell the universe every day. Every day. And for people to say, I'm cool, I'm right here, it's all I need.”
“I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.”
“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.”
“They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.”

Source : "Iraqi information minister denies presence of US forces in Baghdad". BBC Monitoring, April 7, 2003.
“My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.”
“I think everyone should do what they love because it will never feel like work that way.”
“And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.”
“The essence of beauty is unity in variety.”

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