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  1. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Even then, her interior life was far more important to her than her external one.
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  2. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood.
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  3. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.
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    College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
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  5. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    it had been a winter of deadening seriousness, when all the illusions and bright dreams of my early twenties had withered and died. I did not yet have the interior resources to dream new dreams; I was far too busy mourning the death of the old ones and wondering how I was to survive without them. I was sure I could replace them somehow , but was not sure I could restore their brassy luster or dazzling impress .
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  6. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it."
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  7. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    She pronounced each word carefully, as though she was tasting fruit. The words of her poems were a most private and fragrant orchard.
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  8. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.
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  9. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Love has no weapons; it has no fists. Love does not bruise, nor does it draw blood.
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  10. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success -- Sidney Rosen {Prince Of Tides}
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  11. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    It all makes more sense when I'm out here alone," he smiled. "I can talk myself into anything.
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  12. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    As time passed from solstice to mild solstice in those occluded zones of my early childhood, I played beneath the distracted majesty of my mother's blue-eyed gaze. With her eyes on me I felt as if I were being studied by flowers.
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