It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
PAT CONROYLove’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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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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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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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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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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