It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
PAT CONROYOnce you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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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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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.
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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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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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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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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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