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Quotes from Beach Music — Pat Conroy

1945–2016 United States

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8 quotes

One can do anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided with a passionate and gifted teacher.

Beach Music (1995)

In silence, we watched the water shimmer like a peacock's feather in that shining foil of soft tide in retreat.

Beach Music (1995)

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

Beach Music (1995)

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

Beach Music (1995)

The best thing about a small town is that you grow up knowing everyone. It is also the worst thing.

Beach Music (1995)

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

Beach Music (1995)

I do not 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.

Beach Music (1995)

[...] I learned from those evening recitals that music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Beach Music (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pat Conroy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.