Pat Conroy - Thought Quotes

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I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

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

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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.

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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

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Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

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My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

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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.

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