Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.
Pat ConroyI lit a cigarette and began puffing on it as I drank one quick beer after another. I was neither a drinker nor a smoker nor a fighter, but I had planned to be all three on this day.
Pat ConroyOne can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
Pat ConroyStichwörter: teaching
My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
Pat Conroy...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.
Pat ConroyWe began our life together at a moment of natural self-pity and defeat that left an inimitable impression on both of us. The rejection chastened me and let me know my proper place in the grand scheme of things. It was the last time I would ever make a move that required boldness or a leap of the imagination. I became tentative, suspicious, and dull. I learned to hold my tongue and mark my trail behind me and to look to the future with a wary eye. Finally, I was robbed of a certain optimism, that reckless acceptance of the world and all it could hand my way that had been my strength and deliverance.
Pat ConroyStichwörter: caution self-pity defeatism
i was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities.
Pat ConroyStichwörter: pride shallowness
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
Pat ConroyStichwörter: childhood character parenthood development
Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
Pat ConroyStichwörter: teaching encouragement leadership parenthood mentoring coaching
They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull .
Pat ConroyStichwörter: conformity
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