Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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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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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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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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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
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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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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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