Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
PAT CONROYBooks are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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 pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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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.
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The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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