Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy was born on October 26, 1945, in Atlanta, and grew up as an American citizen. He attended Gonzaga College High School and Beaufort High School before going on to The Citadel for his higher education. Along the way he also played basketball and worked as a teacher.
Conroy built his career as a novelist and prose writer, working in English throughout. Among his notable works are The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides, all three of which were adapted for the screen, as was The Water Is Wide. Both The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides received Oscar nominations. His writing earned him the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Conroy died on March 4, 2016, in Beaufort — the same town where he had attended high school years before.
Quotes by Pat Conroy
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Halloween was a time of candy corn, jack-o'-lanterns, candy kisses, peanut butter cups, bubble gum, Fig Newtons, soapy windows. I tried to tell about Halloween and what it represented to me— a great ritual of childhood when the world for a single night opened its doors and its coffers of candy and fun and happiness.
There's no better word in the language I revere more than teacher. My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
A breeze lifted off the ocean and several hundred notes from the wind chimes tinkled like ice shaken in silver cups. They altered the mood of the forest the way an orchestra does a theater when it begins tuning up its instruments.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends. The mind can never break off from the journey.
Once you have travelled, 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.
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace.