Quotes by : Pat Conroy

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else.....

My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing....

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

My career still strikes me as miraculous. That a boy raised on Marine bases in the South, taught by Roman....

There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a....

One must always forgive another's passion.

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing....

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.