Pat Conroy quotes - page 2

I don't know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present. (Pat Conroy)
A story untold could be the one that kills you. View quote
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I've never had anyone's approval, so I've learned to live without it. View quote
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. View quote
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once. View quote
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing. View quote
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Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains. View quote
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children. View quote
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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. View quote
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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air. View quote
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These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart. (Pat Conroy)
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. View quote
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He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives. View quote
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? View quote
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Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk. View quote
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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 forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch. View quote
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me. View quote
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It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters. View quote
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In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness. View quote
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Honor is the presence of God in man. View quote
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay. (Pat Conroy)
It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one. View quote
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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. View quote
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Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself. View quote
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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. Those tears had been with me always. View quote
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