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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.
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
Donald Patrick Conroy
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Lenses
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Hide
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Lifesaver
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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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Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
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Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
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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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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
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He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
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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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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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I don't believe in happy families.
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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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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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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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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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