Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
PAT CONROYI had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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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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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
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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.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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