Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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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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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One does not know where love will take you.
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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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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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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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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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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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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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Here’s what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite.
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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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