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I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.
– Pat Conroy

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  2. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. – Pat Conroy
  3. 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
  4. It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much. – Pat Conroy
  5. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. – Pat Conroy
  6. The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. – Pat Conroy
  7. You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little ????ed up. – Pat Conroy
  8. A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. – Pat Conroy
  9. I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. – Pat Conroy
  10. It’s politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you’ll know what I mean. – Pat Conroy
  11. I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well. – Pat Conroy
  12. Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills. – Pat Conroy
  13. It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts. – Pat Conroy
  14. Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. – Pat Conroy
  15. Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains. – Pat Conroy
  16. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. – Pat Conroy
  17. He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. – Pat Conroy
  18. Great romantics are granted lots of slack. – Pat Conroy
  19. When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children – Pat Conroy
  20. I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves. – Pat Conroy
  21. You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It’s a vicious cycle. – Pat Conroy
  22. Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing. – Pat Conroy
  23. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid. – Pat Conroy
  24. There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. – Pat Conroy
  25. Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years. – Pat Conroy
  26. Help them, but don’t make friends with them. – Pat Conroy
  27. Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. – Pat Conroy
  28. Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers. – Pat Conroy
  29. Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood. – Pat Conroy
  30. The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. – Pat Conroy
  31. It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. – Pat Conroy
  32. The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. – Pat Conroy
  33. She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. – Pat Conroy
  34. You’re going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It’s the hardest role in the world. – Pat Conroy
  35. A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. – Pat Conroy
  36. Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen. – Pat Conroy
  37. I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. – Pat Conroy
  38. Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. – Pat Conroy
  39. Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. – Pat Conroy
  40. The body’s a funny thing. It’s so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly. – Pat Conroy

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