
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
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- God has given me a lifeboat and said… ‘Moody save all you can – Dwight L Moody
- 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
- Read the great books, gentlemen,- Mr. Monte said one day. -œJust the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time. – Pat Conroy
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- I’ve always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small. – Pat Conroy
- 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
- It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. – Pat Conroy
- Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most. – Pat Conroy
- Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen. – Pat Conroy
- Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. – Pat Conroy
- A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. – Pat Conroy
- I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. – Pat Conroy
- It’s politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you’ll know what I mean. – Pat Conroy
- But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention. – Pat Conroy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts. – Pat Conroy
- Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. – Pat Conroy
- Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains. – Pat Conroy
- The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. – Pat Conroy
- He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. – Pat Conroy
- Great romantics are granted lots of slack. – Pat Conroy
- Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing. – Pat Conroy
- There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. – Pat Conroy
- 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
- Help them, but don’t make friends with them. – Pat Conroy
- Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. – Pat Conroy
- Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers. – Pat Conroy
- Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood. – Pat Conroy
- I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little. – Pat Conroy
- The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. – Pat Conroy
- The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. – Pat Conroy
- She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. – Pat Conroy
- You’re going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It’s the hardest role in the world. – Pat Conroy
- i was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities. – Pat Conroy
- A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. – Pat Conroy
- I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. – Pat Conroy
- Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. – Pat Conroy
- The body’s a funny thing. It’s so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly. – Pat Conroy