A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
PAT CONROYI’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak-and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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