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PAT CONROYHere is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Here’s what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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