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My mother raised me to be a writer. — Pat Conroy

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word. — Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks. — Pat Conroy

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival. — Pat Conroy

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

A story untold could be the one that kills you. — Pat Conroy

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. — Pat Conroy

I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara. — Pat Conroy

Man wonders but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides. — Pat Conroy

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives. — Pat Conroy

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. — Pat Conroy

Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other. — Pat Conroy

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me. — Pat Conroy

She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. — Pat Conroy

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. — Pat Conroy

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

The porpoise has always been a sign of renewal and of the charged magical life. — Pat Conroy

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

Beautiful cities have a treacherous nature. — Pat Conroy

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person. — Frances Conroy

Help them, but don't make friends with them. — Pat Conroy

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. — Pat Conroy

According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace. — Pat Conroy

The two fountains spoke to each other in the pretty speech of falling water ... — Pat Conroy

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. — Pat Conroy

The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in. — Kevin Conroy

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story. — Kevin Conroy

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate. — Pat Conroy

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. — Pat Conroy

Love has no weapons; it has no fists. Love does not bruise, nor does it draw blood. — Pat Conroy

Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max. — Jim Conroy

I went up to the terrace again and looked out on the tawny, many-alleyed city. At night it looked carved from brown sugar. — Pat Conroy

She had camouflaged the vinegar factory in her character with a great honeycomb along the sills and porches of her public self. — Pat Conroy

The suicidal lead shame-drenched lives. — David L. Conroy

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win. — Pat Conroy

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. — Pat Conroy

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. — Pat Conroy

The most powerful words in English are, Tell me a story. — Pat Conroy

I reveled in class discussion and the Socratic method of drawing substance out of calcified minds untrained to think. — Pat Conroy

Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen. — Pat Conroy

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough. — Pat Conroy

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

If Henry Wingo had not been a violent man, I think he would have made a splendid father. — Pat Conroy

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real. — Pat Conroy

Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success
Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides) — Pat Conroy

To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose. — David L. Conroy

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses? — Pat Conroy

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been. — Pat Conroy

I was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities. — Pat Conroy

There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help. — Pat Conroy

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness. — Pat Conroy

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. — Pat Conroy

The music acted as a marinade in my weary spirit. — Pat Conroy

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains. — Pat Conroy

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. — Pat Conroy

As a teacher, I had been a happy man. Now, I was only a diminished one. — Pat Conroy

I had the need to be the good master, but definitely the master, no matter what the cost. — Pat Conroy

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks. — Pat Conroy

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me. — Pat Conroy

Pervasive part of the island culture — Pat Conroy

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

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood. — Pat Conroy

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all. — Pat Conroy

Surface my wife's most vicious — Pat Conroy

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue. — Pat Conroy

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious. — Pat Conroy

life was good, but it was hard; we would prepare to meet it head on, but we would enjoy the preparation. — Pat Conroy

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books. — Pat Conroy

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist. — Pat Conroy

Humanity is best described as inhumanity. — Pat Conroy

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little. — Pat Conroy

I was becoming convinced that the world was a colorful, variegated grab bag full of bastards. But — Pat Conroy

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn. — Pat Conroy

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher. — Pat Conroy

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. — Pat Conroy

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. — Pat Conroy

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly. — Pat Conroy

I had read for the way words sounded, not for the ideas they espoused. — Pat Conroy

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children — Pat Conroy

The forlorn appearance assumed by all houses that have lost their people. — Pat Conroy

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

I've never had anyone's approval, so I've learned to live without it. — Pat Conroy

Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream. — Pat Conroy

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life. — Pat Conroy

Don't go yet. Please. Tell me a story, one about us. Tell what it meant. How on earth did it happen? The story, Pat - tell it to me. — Pat Conroy

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. — Pat Conroy

One does not know where love will take you. — Pat Conroy

A perspicacious lad, Mr. McLean. A perspicacious swine, indeed. — Pat Conroy

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

It all makes more sense when I'm out here alone," he smiled. "I can talk myself into anything. — Pat Conroy

Tip #7: Gray Divorce-'Til Retirement do us Part? — Mary Helen Conroy

[P]enmanship as pretty as a row of tulips — Pat Conroy

On its own, my spirit seemed to relax, like a folding chair let out by a pool. — Pat Conroy

I don't believe in happy families. — Pat Conroy

Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers — Pat Conroy

A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up. — Pat Conroy

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. — Pat Conroy

Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain. — David L. Conroy