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• It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.

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  Wine, Moon, Glasses

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

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• She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

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  Passion, Long, Return

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• Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

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  Teaching, Coaching, Good Teaching

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.103, Random House

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• It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.

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  Art, New York, Hate

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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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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  Real, Grief, Rivers

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

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  Lovers, Institutions

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.217, Open Road Media

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• Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

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  Dream, Memories, Sleep

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.344, Open Road Media

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• The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

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  Girl, Hands, Water

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

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• What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

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  Moving, Important, Stories

  Pat Conroy (2010). “South of Broad”, p.260, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

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  Library, Looks, Shows

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Reading Life”, p.17, Nan A. Talese

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• Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

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  Writing, Thinking, Form

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• Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

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  Book, Home, South Carolina

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Jun 22, 2010

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• The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

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  Teacher, Literature, World

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.161, Nan A. Talese

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• In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

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  Thinking, Parent, Forgiving

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.976, Open Road Media

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• These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

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  Heart, Childhood, Remember

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.230, Open Road Media

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• The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

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  Tides, Enough, Goodness

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.396, Open Road Media

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• I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.

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  Born, Very Good, Point Guard

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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. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

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  Men, Self, Agony

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.312, Open Road Media

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• He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

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  Men, Tides, Capable

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.861, Open Road Media

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• Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.

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  Children, Thinking, Quality

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Water Is Wide: A Memoir”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• (You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

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  Temptation, Watches, Chickens

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• ... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

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  God, Wings, Enough

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

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• Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.

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  Sea, Tears, Earth

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• Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

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  Book, Reading, Today

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• The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

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  Pride, Coward, Way

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.311, Open Road Media

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