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Beach Music QUOTES

Beach Music QUOTES

1 " It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

2 " Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

3 " Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

4 " The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

5 " One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

6 " The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

7 " 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 , Beach Music

8 " Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

9 " 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 , Beach Music

10 " American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

11 " I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

12 " No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

13 " I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

14 " I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

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

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

16 " Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

17 " Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

18 " But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

19 " I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music

20 " Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been. "

― Pat Conroy , Beach Music