The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
PAT CONROYLosing 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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Urge 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.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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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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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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