Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
PAT CONROYMy 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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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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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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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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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
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