Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
PAT CONROYA story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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I 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.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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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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My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
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