Pat Conroy
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"Pat Conroy" is a The New York Times/New York Times New York Times bestseller list/bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides (novel)/The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini (novel)/The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature.

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Pain doesn't travel in straight lines. It circles back around and comes up behind you. It's the circles that kill you.

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

Local people seemed very angry for a very long time. It was extraordinary backlash. I was called a liar, I was called every(thing) else. It was enough of a backlash that I moved to Atlanta.

I thought I'd stumbled onto Pluto. What I did not realize, I had stumbled into the great lie. They were separate but there was no equality whatsoever.

Graham is as Southern as black-eyed peas, scuppernong wine, she-crab soup, Crimson Tide tailgating and a dog with ticks. She is so relentlessly Southern she makes me feel that I was born in Minnesota!

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

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

The genius of the (original) novel is they were the mother and father of what Atlanta was going to become, ... Would I have written a better novel than Margaret Mitchell? Hell no.

My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the central book in her life, and made it the central book in her family.

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to sister.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

I always noticed that the actors are always better looking than I am or ever was.