My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
PAT CONROYBut no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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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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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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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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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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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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Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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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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