The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
PAT CONROYGood coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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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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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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