Read the great books, gentlemen, ” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.

Pat Conroy
Some Similar Quotes
  1. If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. - Unknown

  2. …There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible–magic to make the sanest man go mad. - Homer

  3. Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. - Zora Neale Hurston

  4. A great nose may be an index Of a great soul - Edmond Rostand

  5. Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? - William Makepeace Thackeray

More Quotes By Pat Conroy
  1. I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go 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.

  2. I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

  3. It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

  4. The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.

  5. Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

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