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Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.Pat Conroy
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It's politics .. . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.Pat Conroy
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.Pat Conroy
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Carolina beach music, " Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.Pat Conroy
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Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.Pat Conroy
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.Pat Conroy
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Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe.Pat Conroy
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.Pat Conroy
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The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.Pat Conroy
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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.Pat Conroy
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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.Pat Conroy
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It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.Pat Conroy