Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
PAT CONROYA library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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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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Cameras 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.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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