Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
PAT CONROYEach of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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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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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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