The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
PAT CONROYThe most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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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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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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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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