The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
PAT CONROYThe great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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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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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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