Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak-and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…
PAT CONROYTell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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Like everything else, love’s not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity.
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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 pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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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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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.
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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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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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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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