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.
PAT CONROYLaughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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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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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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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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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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