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Pat Conroy quotes

American Writer October 26, 1945

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My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life". Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "The porpoise has always been a sign of renewal and of the..."
The porpoise has always been a sign of renewal and of the charged magical life. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but..."
Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an..."
it was but one of the things that made friendship with me an ambivalent enterprise. Pat Conroy
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
Pat Conroy quote: "Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless..."
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. Pat Conroy
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
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time..."
A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater. Pat Conroy
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
. . I have come to revere words like "democracy" and "freedom," the right to vote, the incomprehensibly beautiful origins of my country, and the grandeur of the extraordinary vision of the founding fathers. Do I not see America's flaws? Of course I do. But I now can honor her basic, incorruptible virtues, the ones that let me walk the streets screaming my ass off that my country had no idea what it was doing in South Vietnam. . . . I have come to a conclusion about my country that I knew... Pat Conroy
I had come to Charleston as a young boy, a lonely visitor slouching through its well-tended streets, a young boy, lean and grassy, who grew fluent in his devotion and appreciation of that city's inestimable charm. I was a boy there and saw things through the eyes of a boy for the last time. The boy was dying and I wanted to leave him in the silent lanes South of Broad. I would leave him with no regrets except that I had not stopped to honor his passing. I had not thanked the boy for his... Pat Conroy
We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory. Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy quote: "Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of..."
Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles. Pat Conroy
Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of total joy. Pat Conroy

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