Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
PAT CONROYAnyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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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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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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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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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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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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