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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

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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
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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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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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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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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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Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
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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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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
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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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Carolina beach music, Dupree said, coming up on the porch. The holiest sound on earth.
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The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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My mother raised me to be a writer.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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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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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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