Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
PAT CONROYA family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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Good writing … involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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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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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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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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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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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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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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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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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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