Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
PAT CONROYSilence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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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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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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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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Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.
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There’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.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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