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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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Basketball Player
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Screenwriter
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Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, Oh, Mama, do it again! And I had my earliest memory.
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Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
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