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It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.
– 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. 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
  4. I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake. – Pat Conroy
  5. I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. – Pat Conroy
  6. I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving. – Frida Kahlo
  7. This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. – Rachel Higginson
  8. Great romantics are granted lots of slack. – Pat Conroy
  9. Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. – Pat Conroy
  10. Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers – Pat Conroy
  11. She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. – Pat Conroy
  12. She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. – Pat Conroy
  13. I’ve been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it’s no surprise that I ended up writing for a living. – Sara Sheridan
  14. Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise. – Debasish Mridha
  15. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. – Pat Conroy
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little. – Pat Conroy
  19. The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. – Pat Conroy
  20. Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don’t surprise yourself, you’re not going to surprise anybody else. – Logan Henderson
  21. The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else. – John Patrick Hickey
  22. The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else. – John Patrick Hickey
  23. LOVE should be the inspiration when Lover is the Surprise, and when LOVE is the Surprise , then Loved one must be the inspiration! – Madan Mohan Mahapatra
  24. the only one who wanted to be free. Surprise, surprise. CHAPTER – JR Ward
  25. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same. – GA Aiken
  26. A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. – Pat Conroy
  27. Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains. – Pat Conroy
  28. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. – Pat Conroy
  29. Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing. – Pat Conroy
  30. There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. – Pat Conroy
  31. Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers. – Pat Conroy
  32. Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood. – Pat Conroy
  33. The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. – Pat Conroy
  34. It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. – Pat Conroy
  35. The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. – Pat Conroy
  36. You’re going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It’s the hardest role in the world. – Pat Conroy
  37. A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. – Pat Conroy
  38. I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. – Pat Conroy
  39. Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. – Pat Conroy
  40. Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. – Pat Conroy

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