Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
PAT CONROYI had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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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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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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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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