I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
PAT CONROYDo 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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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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