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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
Pat Conroy
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Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
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My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
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There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.
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The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.
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Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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