Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
PAT CONROYWhen men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Political 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.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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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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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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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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Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
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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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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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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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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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