Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
PAT CONROYLosing 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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