Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
PAT CONROYThere’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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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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.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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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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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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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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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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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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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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