But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
PAT CONROYBaseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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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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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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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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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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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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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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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.
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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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Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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