A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
PAT CONROYA family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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