American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
PAT CONROYGood writing is the hardest form of thinking.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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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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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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.
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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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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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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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