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.
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,
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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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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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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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.
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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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