The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
PAT CONROYOnce you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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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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Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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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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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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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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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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