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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
Untold
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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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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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.
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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.
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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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