Pat Conroy Quotes - Page 2

A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

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.

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

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

Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?