Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
PAT CONROYEvery woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
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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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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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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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We die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet.
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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.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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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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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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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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And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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