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.
PAT CONROYI’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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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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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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