Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
PAT CONROYThe University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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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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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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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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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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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