One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
PAT CONROYEvil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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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’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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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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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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