I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
Weitere Zitate von Pat Conroy
Zum Autor"The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man."
"He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives."
"I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told."
"Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills."
"Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing."
"The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism."