I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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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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Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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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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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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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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