Pat Conroy Short Quotes

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

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

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

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The wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

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The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

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Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

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

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I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

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

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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

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

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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

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

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A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

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The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

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

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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

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Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

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We spent our entire childhoods in the service of our country, and no one even knew we were there.

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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

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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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Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

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Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

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