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Pat Conroy Quotes

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it Picture Quote #1

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family Picture Quote #1

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better Picture Quote #1

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 game Picture Quote #1

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 pitied that old man Picture Quote #1

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher Picture Quote #1

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Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance Picture Quote #1

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood Picture Quote #1

She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs Picture Quote #1

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart Picture Quote #1

Isn’t it a shame military doctors couldn’t be as good as military sunglasses? Picture Quote #1

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood Picture Quote #1

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I’ve never cackled with laughter at a single line I’ve ever written. None of it has given me pleasure Picture Quote #1

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In family matters you can get over anything. That’s one thing you’ll learn as an adult. There’s a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You’d never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it’s different. Friends aren’t the roll of the dice Picture Quote #1

Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart Picture Quote #1

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly Picture Quote #1

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... when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life’s work Picture Quote #1

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The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it (Pat Conroy Quotes) One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family (Pat Conroy Quotes) Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better (Pat Conroy Quotes) 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 game (Pat Conroy Quotes) 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 pitied that old man (Pat Conroy Quotes) One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher (Pat Conroy Quotes) Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance (Pat Conroy Quotes) Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood (Pat Conroy Quotes) She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs (Pat Conroy Quotes) Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart (Pat Conroy Quotes) Isn’t it a shame military doctors couldn’t be as good as military sunglasses? (Pat Conroy Quotes) I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood (Pat Conroy Quotes) I’ve never cackled with laughter at a single line I’ve ever written. None of it has given me pleasure (Pat Conroy Quotes) I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment (Pat Conroy Quotes) 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 (Pat Conroy Quotes) In family matters you can get over anything. That’s one thing you’ll learn as an adult. There’s a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You’d never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it’s different. Friends aren’t the roll of the dice (Pat Conroy Quotes) Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart (Pat Conroy Quotes) Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly (Pat Conroy Quotes) ... when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life’s work (Pat Conroy Quotes)

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