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There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

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
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We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.
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There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
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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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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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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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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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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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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 loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
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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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Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.
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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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