Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy
Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroywas a New York Times bestselling American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 October 1945
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
eye mental-illness craziness
Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
love doe knows
One does not know where love will take you.
successful numbers wish
Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.
sports father thinking
If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
mother children father
My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
god wings enough
... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
use world stories
I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.
basketball father knowing
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.
athlete mimicry theft
Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
children men taught-us
Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
pride coward way
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
winning innocent cant-win
I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
real taste paranoia
Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.
tree fruit sunlight
The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.