Pat Conroy

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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.

Pat Conroy
family , too , frail
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy
recipe , story , ends
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

Pat Conroy
fear , major , cargo
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

Pat Conroy
could , bear , think
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I don't believe in happy families.

Pat Conroy
believe , happy
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

Pat Conroy
hated , father , long
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Pat Conroy
found , human , nature
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Pat Conroy
love , books , journeys
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I loved my parents... But that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Pat Conroy
loved , never , change
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

Pat Conroy
only , hope , well
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I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

Pat Conroy
still , get , see
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Pat Conroy
still , write , long
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

Pat Conroy
relationship
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

Pat Conroy
think , dorothy , modeled
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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.

Pat Conroy
love , see , young