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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

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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Screenwriter
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Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
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... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
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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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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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A story untold could be the one that kills you.
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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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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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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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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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Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.
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Carolina beach music, Dupree said, coming up on the porch. The holiest sound on earth.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
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