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The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.
– Pat Conroy

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  2. There is a very, narrow, thinness of line between the living and the dead; actually, it’s just a lack of a heartbeat away. – Wes Adamson
  3. Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition. – Kilroy J Oldster
  4. Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. – Pat Conroy
  5. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. – Pat Conroy
  6. You’re going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It’s the hardest role in the world. – Pat Conroy
  7. It considers this Jesus as ultimately decisive, definitive, archetypal for man in these various dimensions of his. – Hans Kng
  8. Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. – Barbara W Tuchman
  9. A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. – Naomi Wolf
  10. The measure of your greatness is not by the narrowness of your beliefs, but by the broadness of your vision. – Debasish Mridha
  11. The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation. – Pearl Zhu
  12. We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. – Booker T Washington
  13. You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little ????ed up. – Pat Conroy
  14. A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. – Pat Conroy
  15. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. – Pat Conroy
  16. I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. – Pat Conroy
  17. I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well. – Pat Conroy
  18. Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills. – Pat Conroy
  19. Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains. – Pat Conroy
  20. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. – Pat Conroy
  21. He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. – Pat Conroy
  22. Great romantics are granted lots of slack. – Pat Conroy
  23. When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children – Pat Conroy
  24. I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves. – Pat Conroy
  25. You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It’s a vicious cycle. – Pat Conroy
  26. Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing. – Pat Conroy
  27. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid. – Pat Conroy
  28. There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. – Pat Conroy
  29. 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
  30. Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. – Pat Conroy
  31. Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers. – Pat Conroy
  32. Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood. – Pat Conroy
  33. It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. – Pat Conroy
  34. The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. – Pat Conroy
  35. She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. – Pat Conroy
  36. A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. – Pat Conroy
  37. I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. – Pat Conroy
  38. Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. – Pat Conroy
  39. Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. – Pat Conroy
  40. The body’s a funny thing. It’s so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly. – Pat Conroy

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