The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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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We die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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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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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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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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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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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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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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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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