Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
PAT CONROYSilence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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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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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak-and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…
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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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The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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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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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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