Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
PAT CONROYI 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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