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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
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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 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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I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.
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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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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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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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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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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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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.
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... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
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My mother raised me to be a writer.
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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