My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me,

 

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to sister.


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This quote is just one of 13 total Pat Conroy quotes in our collection. Pat Conroy is known for saying 'My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to sister.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Pain doesn't travel in straight lines. It circles back around and comes up behind you. It's the circles that kill you.

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The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

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Local people seemed very angry for a very long time. It was extraordinary backlash. I was called a liar, I was called every(thing) else. It was enough of a backlash that I moved to Atlanta.

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I thought I'd stumbled onto Pluto. What I did not realize, I had stumbled into the great lie. They were separate but there was no equality whatsoever.

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

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