I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
PAT CONROYRape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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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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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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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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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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