Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
PAT CONROYTeach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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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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You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
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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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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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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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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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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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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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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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