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“La manière sudiste? dit-elle.
- L'immortelle expression chère à ma mère. Nous rions quand la douleur se fait trop forte. Nous rions quand la pitié de l'humaine condition devient trop pitoyable. Nous rions quand il n'y a rien d'autre à faire.”

Pat Conroy livre Le Prince des marées

The Prince of Tides

Pat Conroy: Citations en anglais

“Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.”

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Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline

Source: The Lords of Discipline

“In the thirty-three years he was in the Marine Corps, Col. Conroy concentrated on the task of defending his country and he did so, exceedingly well. In the next twenty-four years left to him, he put all his efforts into the art of being a terrific father, a loving uncle, a brother of great substance, a beloved grandfather, and a friend to thousands. Out of uniform, the Colonel let his genius for humor flourish. Always in motion he made his rounds in Atlanta each day and no one besides himself knew how many stops he put in during a given day. He was like a bee going from flower to flower, pollinating his world with his generous gift for friendships.”

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Pat Conroy

Letter to his readers (1998)

“Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.”

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“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.”

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Pat Conroy livre Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”

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Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline

Source: The Lords of Discipline

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

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

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Pat Conroy livre Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“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.”

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Pat Conroy livre Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“A story untold could be the one that kills you.”

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“I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”

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Pat Conroy livre The Great Santini

Source: The Great Santini

“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”

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Pat Conroy livre Le Prince des marées

Source: The Prince of Tides

“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.”

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Pat Conroy livre Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

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

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Pat Conroy livre Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”

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Pat Conroy livre Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children”

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“There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.”

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Pat Conroy livre Le Prince des marées

Source: The Prince of Tides

“Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.”

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Pat Conroy

Source: My Reading Life

“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”

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Pat Conroy livre Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.”

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Source: My Reading Life

“These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.”

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Pat Conroy livre Le Prince des marées

Source: The Prince of Tides

“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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Pat Conroy livre Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.”

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Pat Conroy The Lords of Discipline

Source: The Lords of Discipline

“The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.”

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Pat Conroy livre Le Prince des marées

Source: The Prince of Tides

“Man wonders but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides.”

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Pat Conroy livre Le Prince des marées

Source: The Prince of Tides

“Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.”

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Pat Conroy livre Le Prince des marées

Source: The Prince of Tides

“What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts”

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Pat Conroy South of Broad

Source: South of Broad

“She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.”

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Pat Conroy livre Le Prince des marées

Source: The Prince of Tides

“There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.”

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Source: My Losing Season: A Memoir

“A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.”

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Pat Conroy livre Le Prince des marées

Source: The Prince of Tides

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

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Pat Conroy livre Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

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