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“In the thirty-three years he was in the Marine Corps, Col. Conroy concentrated on the task of defending his country and he did so, exceedingly well. In the next twenty-four years left to him, he put all his efforts into the art of being a terrific father, a loving uncle, a brother of great substance, a beloved grandfather, and a friend to thousands. Out of uniform, the Colonel let his genius for humor flourish. Always in motion he made his rounds in Atlanta each day and no one besides himself knew how many stops he put in during a given day. He was like a bee going from flower to flower, pollinating his world with his generous gift for friendships.”

Pat Conroy

Letter to his readers (1998)

“No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.”

Pat Conroy

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

Pat Conroy

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“A story untold could be the one that kills you.”

Pat Conroy

“I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”

Pat Conroy book The Great Santini

Source: The Great Santini

“I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.”

Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides

Source: The Prince of Tides

“Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.”

Pat Conroy

Source: My Reading Life

“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“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

Source: My Reading Life

“These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.”

Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides

Source: The Prince of Tides