Pat Conroy Quotes

“The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snugly in the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but in very few other public places. This runaway megalomania marked him as a blood member of the fraternity of generals. If looks alone could make generals, Durrell would have been a cinch. He was built lean and slim and dark, like a Doberman. A man of breeding and refrigerated intelligence, he ordered his life like a table of logarithms.”

“I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.”

“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.”

“Truth disappears with the telling of it.”

“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.”

“The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.”

“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.”

“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”

“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”