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Pat Conroy

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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.


— Pat Conroy


#beauty

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


— Pat Conroy


#family

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.


— Pat Conroy


#poetry #writing #humor

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


— Pat Conroy


#music

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


#inspirational

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


— Pat Conroy


#men #love

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.


— Pat Conroy


#loss #teacher #life

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.


— Pat Conroy


#library #reading #life

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.


— Pat Conroy


#hurt #love #love

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


— Pat Conroy


#emotions #optimism #pessimism #thinking #attitude






About Pat Conroy






Did you know about Pat Conroy?

In 2009 Conroy publiPat Conroyd South of Broad which again uses the familiar backdrop of Charleston following the suicide of newspaperman Leo King's brother and alternates narratives of a diverse group of friends between 1969 and 1989. " They divorced on 26 October 1995. The book won Conroy a humanitarian award from the National Education Association and was made into a feature film Conrack starring Jon Voight in 1974.

Two of his novels The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into Oscar-nominated films. Pat Conroy (born October 26 1945) is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs.

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