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.
PAT CONROYI wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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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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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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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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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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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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There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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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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Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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