The Prince of Tides Quotes

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It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

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Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

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There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr. Fruit had resisted all efforts to reorder what he had been doing perfectly well for many years. He had not only monitored the co...

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She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.

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Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

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He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

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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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Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of swe...

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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.

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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.

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i was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities.

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A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

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She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.

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Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.

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