I 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.
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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Good writing … involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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