Pat Conroy Quotes
When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
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I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.
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Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
