There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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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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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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