My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
PAT CONROYA story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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 wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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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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