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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
Pat Conroy
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Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
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In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.
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It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
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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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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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