Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
PAT CONROYCameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Good writing … 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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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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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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My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.
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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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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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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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