Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
PAT CONROY- Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
PAT CONROYEach divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
PAT CONROYThere are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
PAT CONROYLove’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
PAT CONROYThere is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
PAT CONROYAmerican men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
PAT CONROYI do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
PAT CONROYThe most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
PAT CONROYMusic could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
PAT CONROYWhen mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
PAT CONROYWhy do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
PAT CONROYI wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
PAT CONROYHappiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
PAT CONROYWalking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
PAT CONROYBaseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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