One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
PAT CONROYBut even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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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. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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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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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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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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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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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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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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One does not know where love will take you.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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