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Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

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
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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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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 English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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