A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
PAT CONROYThe English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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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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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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Here’s what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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