There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
PAT CONROYHumanity is best described as inhumanity.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
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Silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.
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