Quotes by Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decor — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I al — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art. — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whene — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - sli — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
This [sand-dollar hunting] had become one of our rituals together, and though she would search for other varieties of sh — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
I loved these salt rivers more than I loved the sea; I loved the movement of tides more than I loved the fury of surf. S — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
It was in her garden that whatever physical grace Abigail St. Croix possessed asserted itself. She moved among her flowe — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integri — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
I thought that I must always search for the remarkable combinations, add unknowns, mix things that were clearly marked w — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them. — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was diff — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not he — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snugly in the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but in very — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline