One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
PAT CONROYMen are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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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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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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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 safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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