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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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
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Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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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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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.
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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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The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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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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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.
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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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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
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Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of total joy.
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