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Pat Conroy Quote: “It has always been difficult for me to face the truth about my childhood because it requires a commitment to explore the lineaments and features of a history I would prefer to forget. For years I did not have to face the demonology of my youth; I made a simple choice not to and found solace in the gentle palmistry of forgetfulness, a refuge in the cold, lordly glooms of the unconscious. But I was drawn back to the history of my family and the failures of my own adult life.”

301. “It has always been difficult for me to face the truth about my childhood because it requires a commitment to explore the lineaments and features of a history I would prefer to forget. For years I did not have to face the demonology of my youth; I made a simple choice not to and found solace in the gentle palmistry of forgetfulness, a refuge in the cold, lordly glooms of the unconscious. But I was drawn back to the history of my family and the failures of my own adult life.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “Early on, I had contracted that dread affliction of oldest or only children – I lived for the absolute approval of my parents.”

302. “Early on, I had contracted that dread affliction of oldest or only children – I lived for the absolute approval of my parents.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “There is something glacial, fishlike, and prodigiously remote about Parisians. At the sound of an approaching foreigner, their faces are as bland and expressionless as salamanders.”

303. “There is something glacial, fishlike, and prodigiously remote about Parisians. At the sound of an approaching foreigner, their faces are as bland and expressionless as salamanders.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “Young girls have an infinite capacity for being attracted to the wrong sort of men.”

304. “Young girls have an infinite capacity for being attracted to the wrong sort of men.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “He had the soul of a fortress and eyes that had peered at the world from battlements too long.”

305. “He had the soul of a fortress and eyes that had peered at the world from battlements too long.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “I still believe that they both loved us deeply, but, as with many parents, their love proved to be the most lethal thing about them.”

306. “I still believe that they both loved us deeply, but, as with many parents, their love proved to be the most lethal thing about them.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “Her eyes were our keys to the palace of wildness.”

307. “Her eyes were our keys to the palace of wildness.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “They strode with purpose, armed with resolution, whereas everything I did seemed insubstantial and forced. I longed for engagement, intrusion, and a little more Mardi Gras than Lent in my life.”

308. “They strode with purpose, armed with resolution, whereas everything I did seemed insubstantial and forced. I longed for engagement, intrusion, and a little more Mardi Gras than Lent in my life.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “The South’s got a lot wrong with it. But it’s permanent press and it doesn’t wash out.”

309. “The South’s got a lot wrong with it. But it’s permanent press and it doesn’t wash out.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “As her children, we were the trustees of her dazzling evensongs of the imagination, but we did not know that mothers dreamed.”

310. “As her children, we were the trustees of her dazzling evensongs of the imagination, but we did not know that mothers dreamed.”

Pat Conroy Quote: “I realized that words were sometimes nothing more than notes you wrote to your deepest self as you fought to articulate the splendor and the magic and the ineluctable sense of loss that you felt in the swift, disturbing hours.”

311. “I realized that words were sometimes nothing more than notes you wrote to your deepest self as you fought to articulate the splendor and the magic and the ineluctable sense of loss that you felt in the swift, disturbing hours.”

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