I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
PAT CONROYUrge 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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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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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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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 great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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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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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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