Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Good writing … involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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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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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
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The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
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