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A story untold could be the one that kills you.
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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Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
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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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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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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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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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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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Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
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Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
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We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
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The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew 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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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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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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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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