Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.
Pat Conroy
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
Author
Basketball Player
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
Downside
Fabulous
Forever
Winning
Inspirational
Feels
Life
More quotes by Pat Conroy
We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.
Pat Conroy
Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
Pat Conroy
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
Pat Conroy
The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
Pat Conroy
She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.
Pat Conroy
Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.
Pat Conroy
I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
Pat Conroy
One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
Pat Conroy
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
Pat Conroy
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
Pat Conroy
I don't believe in happy families.
Pat Conroy
We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.
Pat Conroy
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
Pat Conroy
Families without songs are unhappy families.
Pat Conroy
I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.
Pat Conroy
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
Pat Conroy
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
Pat Conroy
... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
Pat Conroy
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.
Pat Conroy
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
Pat Conroy