Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
PAT CONROYIt’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
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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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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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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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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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