Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
PAT CONROYI 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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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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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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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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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
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