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• Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

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  Sports, Boys, Secret

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.421, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

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  Law, Evil

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.155, Open Road Media

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• I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

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  Military, World, Good Mood

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.403, Open Road Media

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• Honor is the presence of God in man.

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  Men, Honor, Presence Of God

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.394, Open Road Media

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• If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

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  Lucky, Treasure, Fortune

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.273, Open Road Media

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• My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

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  Running, Book, Reading

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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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  Intellectual, South Carolina, Roles

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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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  Eye, Expression, Tongue

  Pat Conroy (2012). “Beach Music”, p.366, Random House

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• My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

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  Tides, Geography, Port

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

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  August, Afternoon, Late

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book, 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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  Song, Book, Careers

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• Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

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  Thinking, Special, About Yourself

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.139, Random House

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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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  Running, Mind, Victory

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

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  Travel, Adventure, Vacation

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

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  Attention, Dignity, Demon

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

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  Knowing Nothing, Bottles, Passionate

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.171, Open Road Media

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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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  Teacher, Life Learning, Reason

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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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. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

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  Book, Museums, Ideas

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• It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

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  Prayer, Dancing, Looks

  Pat Conroy (2010). “South of Broad”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

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  Father, Childhood, Parent

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• When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

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  Mom, Children, Dad

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• We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

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  Inspirational, Basketball, Athlete

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• One does not know where love will take you.

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  Love, Doe, Knows

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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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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  Journey, Wire, Revelations

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• Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

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  People, Cameras, Lenses

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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