Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
PAT CONROYYou do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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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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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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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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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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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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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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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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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