When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
PAT CONROYMy attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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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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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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