Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
PAT CONROYThen 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…
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
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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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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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Here’s what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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I’d be a conservative if I’d never met any. They’re selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
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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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Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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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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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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