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

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

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  2. Read the great books, gentlemen,- Mr. Monte said one day. -œJust the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time. – Pat Conroy
  3. The choices I didn’t make are almost as ruinous as the ones I did. – Pat Conroy
  4. The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are. – Pat Conroy
  5. Can compromise be an art? Yes–but a minor art. – Joyce Carol Oates
  6. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. – Charles ens
  7. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. – Pat Conroy
  8. It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much. – Pat Conroy
  9. 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
  10. I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little. – Pat Conroy
  11. The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. – Pat Conroy
  12. Life isn’t easy but if you don’t try to improve it then it’ll just get worse and worse till your no longer living. – Joe
  13. Every aspect of your life is anchored energetically in your living space, so clearing clutter can completely transform your entire existence. – Karen Kingston
  14. 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
  15. A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. – Pat Conroy
  16. I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. – Pat Conroy
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. – Pat Conroy
  20. Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains. – Pat Conroy
  21. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. – Pat Conroy
  22. He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. – Pat Conroy
  23. Great romantics are granted lots of slack. – Pat Conroy
  24. Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing. – Pat Conroy
  25. There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. – Pat Conroy
  26. 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
  27. Help them, but don’t make friends with them. – Pat Conroy
  28. Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. – Pat Conroy
  29. Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers. – Pat Conroy
  30. Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood. – Pat Conroy
  31. The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. – Pat Conroy
  32. It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. – Pat Conroy
  33. The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. – Pat Conroy
  34. She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. – Pat Conroy
  35. You’re going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It’s the hardest role in the world. – Pat Conroy
  36. A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. – 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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