Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
PAT CONROY
Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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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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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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We die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet.
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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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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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.
PAT CONROY