I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
PAT CONROYPolitical correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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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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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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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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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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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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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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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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