Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.

Pat Conroy

Tags: literature classics great-books



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I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

Pat Conroy

Tags: writing curiosity



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Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

Pat Conroy

Tags: intelligence arrogance argument apologetics



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Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

Pat Conroy

Tags: school nostalgia memory



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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Pat Conroy

Tags: teaching mentoring coaching



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Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

Pat Conroy

Tags: creativity prayer



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Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, "the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.

Pat Conroy

Tags: disappointment routine repetition drudgery



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An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

Pat Conroy

Tags: perception writing curiosity



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Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

Pat Conroy

Tags: imitation plagiarism



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Има само една трудност в това да бъдеш мъж.Не ни учат как да обичаме.Когато една жена ни обича,това но сломява и ние се изпълваме със страх,смирение и целомъдрие.Жените не ни разбират,защото ние никога не отвръщаме на любовта им всеотдайно.Защото нямаме с какво да им отвърнем.

Pat Conroy


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