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.
PAT CONROYThere is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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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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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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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 was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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