Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

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Happiness Accident Nature Beautiful

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

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Desert Journey Life Life Is A Journey

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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

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Affected Aging Challenges Creates

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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

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Ever Given Laughter Line

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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

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Almost Bed Before Gone

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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

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Become Festival Inspired Kids

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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

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Childhood Father Me Take

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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

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Hand Like Long Still

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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

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About Between Books I Think

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Writing has never been that simple for me.

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Been Me Never Simple

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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

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Change Childhood Fact Father

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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

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Before Father Hate Hated

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Believe Families Happy

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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

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About Anything Anything Else Else

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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

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Effects Other Subtle Travel

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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

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About Books I Love Journeys

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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.

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God Heaven Just Literary

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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

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Article Faith Forever Inside

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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

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College Come Know Love

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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

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About Character Composition Did

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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

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Course Fascinated God Grew

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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

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Bit Contradictory Found Human

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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

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Always Better LoAlways Better

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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

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End Good Good Meal Meal

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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

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Art Central Fact Father

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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.

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Beach Book Came Couple

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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

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Contain Expressed Family Frail

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"27 Pat Conroy Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Pat Conroy

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Pat Conroy

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Pat Conroy

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Pat Conroy

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Pat Conroy

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Pat Conroy

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

Pat Conroy

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Pat Conroy

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

Pat Conroy

Writing has never been that simple for me.

Pat Conroy

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Pat Conroy

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

Pat Conroy

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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Pat Conroy

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Pat Conroy

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Pat Conroy

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.

Pat Conroy

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Pat Conroy

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

Pat Conroy

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

Pat Conroy

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Pat Conroy

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Pat Conroy

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

Pat Conroy

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.

Pat Conroy

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

Pat Conroy

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