Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
PAT CONROYWe, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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 could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak-and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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I 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.
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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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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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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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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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