And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
PAT CONROYTeach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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A family is one of nature’s solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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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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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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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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Losing 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.
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