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Pat Conroy

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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

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


— Pat Conroy


#complaining #rebellion #attitude

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.


— Pat Conroy


#love

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


— Pat Conroy


#love

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.


— Pat Conroy


#inspirational

Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.


— Pat Conroy


#strangers #music

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.


— Pat Conroy


#detail #excellence #art

The whole construct of my universe was a cunning, entangled network of lies. I had to start over again. I knew that. And I had to begin by ceasing to loathe myself for my difference from the rest.


— Pat Conroy


#life

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.


— Pat Conroy


#music

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


— Pat Conroy


#courage #pride #courage






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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