The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
PAT CONROYLike everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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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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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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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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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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