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Pat Conroy quotes: I'm sorry your bad dream died," I said as I left her and walked toward the gate. "And I'm sorry I ever met you, Annie Kate. I'm sorry your bad dream died," I said as I left her and walked toward the gate. "And I'm sorry I ever met you, Annie Kate.
Pat Conroy quotes: Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
Pat Conroy quotes: The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
Pat Conroy quotes: I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara. I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
Pat Conroy quotes: Man wonders but God decidesWhen to kill the Prince of Tides. Man wonders but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides.
Pat Conroy quotes: He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives. He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
Pat Conroy quotes: It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much. It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.
Pat Conroy quotes: Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing. Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.
Pat Conroy quotes: The party was very painful to me, as parties usually were, and I felt the familiar loneliness of crowds. The party was very painful to me, as parties usually were, and I felt the familiar loneliness of crowds.
Pat Conroy quotes: I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small. I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.
Pat Conroy quotes: My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood. My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
Pat Conroy quotes: Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
Pat Conroy quotes: Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other. Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.
Pat Conroy quotes: She wore defeat like a piece of cheap jewelry. "Worshiping them. Anointing them with oil, Mrs. Gervais," I said. She wore defeat like a piece of cheap jewelry. "Worshiping them. Anointing them with oil, Mrs. Gervais," I said.
Pat Conroy quotes: But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention. But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
Pat Conroy quotes: music as we danced our way in both music as we danced our way in both
Pat Conroy quotes: In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
Pat Conroy quotes: My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right. My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.
Pat Conroy quotes: A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground. A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
Pat Conroy quotes: I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.' I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
Pat Conroy quotes: Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have. Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.
Pat Conroy quotes: The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
Pat Conroy quotes: Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams. Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
Pat Conroy quotes: ... it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise. ... it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise.
Pat Conroy quotes: According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace. According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace.
Pat Conroy quotes: Great romantics are granted lots of slack. Great romantics are granted lots of slack.
Pat Conroy quotes: One must always forgive another's passion. One must always forgive another's passion.
Pat Conroy quotes: She was writing a letter in her beautiful penmanship, her sentences all like well-made bracelets. She was writing a letter in her beautiful penmanship, her sentences all like well-made bracelets.
Pat Conroy quotes: It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts. It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.
Pat Conroy quotes: Because we're human. Like everyone else. And the older we get, the more human we get. The more human we get, the more painful everything becomes. Because we're human. Like everyone else. And the older we get, the more human we get. The more human we get, the more painful everything becomes.
Pat Conroy quotes: My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life. My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life.
Pat Conroy quotes: Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
Pat Conroy quotes: life was good, but it was hard; we would prepare to meet it head on, but we would enjoy the preparation. life was good, but it was hard; we would prepare to meet it head on, but we would enjoy the preparation.
Pat Conroy quotes: I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me. I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.
Pat Conroy quotes: Lila Wingo would take the raw material of a daughter and shape her into a poet and a psychotic. Lila Wingo would take the raw material of a daughter and shape her into a poet and a psychotic.
Pat Conroy quotes: Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air. Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
Pat Conroy quotes: Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise. Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
Pat Conroy quotes: You must appreciate beauty for it to endure. You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.
Pat Conroy quotes: I want to be lovely in death... I want to be lovely in death...
Pat Conroy quotes: Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
Pat Conroy quotes: Surface my wife's most vicious Surface my wife's most vicious
Pat Conroy quotes: Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that's me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills. Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that's me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills.
Pat Conroy quotes: A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal. A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
Pat Conroy quotes: Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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. 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: Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform. Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.
Pat Conroy quotes: Single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can't I ignore her, Single insincere phoneme, piss me off? Why can't I ignore her,
Pat Conroy quotes: A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America.
Pat Conroy quotes: Writing has never been that simple for me. Writing has never been that simple for me.
Pat Conroy quotes: Even then, her interior life was far more important to her than her external one. Even then, her interior life was far more important to her than her external one.
Pat Conroy quotes: I was becoming convinced that the world was a colorful, variegated grab bag full of bastards. But I was becoming convinced that the world was a colorful, variegated grab bag full of bastards. But
Pat Conroy quotes: I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown. I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy quotes: Mrs. Brown, whose primary job on the island Mrs. Brown, whose primary job on the island
Pat Conroy quotes: Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands. Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
Pat Conroy quotes: The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean. The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.
Pat Conroy quotes: I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
Pat Conroy quotes: Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material. Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys's sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material.
Pat Conroy quotes: The best thing about a small town is that you grow up knowing everyone. It is also the worst thing. The best thing about a small town is that you grow up knowing everyone. It is also the worst thing.
Pat Conroy quotes: Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
Pat Conroy quotes: Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name. Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name.
Pat Conroy quotes: He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood. He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.
Pat Conroy quotes: My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
Pat Conroy quotes: The forlorn appearance assumed by all houses that have lost their people. The forlorn appearance assumed by all houses that have lost their people.
Pat Conroy quotes: On its own, my spirit seemed to relax, like a folding chair let out by a pool. On its own, my spirit seemed to relax, like a folding chair let out by a pool.
Pat Conroy quotes: I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation. I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
Pat Conroy quotes: Losing tears along the seam of your own image of yourself. It is a mark of shame that causes internal injury, but no visible damage. Losing tears along the seam of your own image of yourself. It is a mark of shame that causes internal injury, but no visible damage.
Pat Conroy quotes: [P]enmanship as pretty as a row of tulips [P]enmanship as pretty as a row of tulips
Pat Conroy quotes: It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.
Pat Conroy quotes: I'm not mentally ill," she insisted, fidgeting in her chair. "I'm just very neurotic and I'm always falling in love with assholes. I'm not mentally ill," she insisted, fidgeting in her chair. "I'm just very neurotic and I'm always falling in love with assholes.
Pat Conroy quotes: I loved my parents ... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. I loved my parents ... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
Pat Conroy quotes: I reveled in class discussion and the Socratic method of drawing substance out of calcified minds untrained to think. I reveled in class discussion and the Socratic method of drawing substance out of calcified minds untrained to think.
Pat Conroy quotes: You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up. You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Pat Conroy quotes: The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are. The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.
Pat Conroy quotes: If Henry Wingo had not been a violent man, I think he would have made a splendid father. If Henry Wingo had not been a violent man, I think he would have made a splendid father.
Pat Conroy quotes: Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real. Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.
Pat Conroy quotes: Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides) Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success
Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides)
Pat Conroy quotes: Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses? Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?
Pat Conroy quotes: There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help. There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.
Pat Conroy quotes: As a teacher, I had been a happy man. Now, I was only a diminished one. As a teacher, I had been a happy man. Now, I was only a diminished one.
Pat Conroy quotes: Love has no weapons; it has no fists. Love does not bruise, nor does it draw blood. Love has no weapons; it has no fists. Love does not bruise, nor does it draw blood.
Pat Conroy quotes: 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. 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.
Pat Conroy quotes: 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. 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.
Pat Conroy quotes: The scampi tasted sweet like a lobster fed only on honey and it cut into the deep undertone of flavor deposited on the taste buds by the truffles. The scampi tasted sweet like a lobster fed only on honey and it cut into the deep undertone of flavor deposited on the taste buds by the truffles.
Pat Conroy quotes: There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
Pat Conroy quotes: Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers
Pat Conroy quotes: The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl. The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
Pat Conroy quotes: I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
Pat Conroy quotes: Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry. Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.
Pat Conroy quotes: Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance. Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.
Pat Conroy quotes: I don't believe in happy families. I don't believe in happy families.
Pat Conroy quotes: Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry. Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
Pat Conroy quotes: Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all. Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
Pat Conroy quotes: Honor is the presence of God in man. Honor is the presence of God in man.
Pat Conroy quotes: Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert. Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy quotes: My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art. My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.
Pat Conroy quotes: The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement. The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
Pat Conroy quotes: Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.
Pat Conroy quotes: I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told. I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
Pat Conroy quotes: I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole. I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
Pat Conroy quotes: Everyone was surprised and enraged by the usurpation of this inalienable Caucasian right to park one's ass on a leather stool and drink a Coke. Everyone was surprised and enraged by the usurpation of this inalienable Caucasian right to park one's ass on a leather stool and drink a Coke.

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