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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

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
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
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Carolina beach music, Dupree said, coming up on the porch. The holiest sound on earth.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.
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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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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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