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.
PAT CONROYHonor is the presence of God in man.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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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 could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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