If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
PAT CONROYI would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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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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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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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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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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