Pat Conroy Quotes
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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I love writing songs.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.
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Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
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What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
