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Me Quotes by Pat Conroy
- 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…
- The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'
- My mother raised me to be a writer.
- Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed…
- ... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
- Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
- I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it…
- I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
- My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
- When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading…
- Writing has never been that simple for me.
- College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
- It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes…
- From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with…
- Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea.…
- Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw…
- My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate…
- I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
- I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This…
- 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…
- Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.
- Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political…
- Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I…
- Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the…
- 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…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale