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.
PAT CONROYOnce you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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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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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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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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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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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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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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