Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
PAT CONROYGood coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
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