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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

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
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
Coaching
Teaching
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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A story untold could be the one that kills you.
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Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
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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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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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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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I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.
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Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
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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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If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to 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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Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
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Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.
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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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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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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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The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
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