Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
PAT CONROYLove’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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Here’s what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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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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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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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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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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