In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.
Pat ConroyMots clés conformity parenting conventional-wisdom
A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.
Pat ConroyMots clés family marriage generational-curse
Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
Pat ConroyThe desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.
Pat ConroyMots clés experience education perspective culture
She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.
Pat ConroyMots clés psychiatry therapy counseling
As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.
Pat ConroyMots clés childhood parenting maturity
I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.
Pat ConroyMots clés cooking servant-leader
It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.
Pat ConroyMots clés humility genius self-awareness
College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
Pat ConroyMots clés education ambition humility maturity
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
Pat ConroyMots clés potential complacency
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