Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
PAT CONROYBaseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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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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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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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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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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