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.
PAT CONROYOnce you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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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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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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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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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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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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