Pat Conroy Quotes

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• The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return…
• The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
• One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
• Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
• We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten…
• The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
• The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
• I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I…
• In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
• My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
• One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
• The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
• The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
• Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
• I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
• I don’t believe in happy families,
• It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I…
• I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one,
• Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that…

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