My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
PAT CONROYA library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
PAT CONROYI discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
PAT CONROYI prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
PAT CONROYEach divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
PAT CONROYYou touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
PAT CONROYHappiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
PAT CONROYWalking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
PAT CONROYGood writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
PAT CONROYI wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
PAT CONROYThe most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
PAT CONROYLosing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
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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.
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.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
PAT CONROYI would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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