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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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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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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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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
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I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.
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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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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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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’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.
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Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
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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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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
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