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Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
Pat Conroy
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Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
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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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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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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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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
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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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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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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 not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
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The safe places could only be visited they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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