{"author":"Pat Conroy","author_id":"Pat+Conroy","total_quotes":160,"quotes":[{"text":"Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["ageing","friends","friendship","growing-old","pat-conroy"],"id":810,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["family"],"id":1624,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["attitude","emotions","optimism","pessimism","thinking"],"id":4336,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["ambition","education","humility","maturity"],"id":5125,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"Carolina beach music,' Dupree said, coming up on the porch. 'The holiest sound on earth.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["music","south","south-carolina"],"id":7080,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["creativity","prayer"],"id":10084,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["culture","education","experience","perspective"],"id":10416,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"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.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["cassandra-king","love","marriage","moonrise","novelist","pat-conroy"],"id":10665,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["love","men"],"id":11548,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"My career still strikes me as miraculous. That a boy raised on Marine bases in the South, taught by Roman Catholic nuns in backwater Southern towns that loathed Catholics, and completed his education with an immersion into The Citadel—the whole story sounds fabricated, impossible even to me. Maybe especially to me.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["citadel","gratitude","marines","pat-conroy","southern"],"id":14778,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":160,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}