Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
PAT CONROYHere is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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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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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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