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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
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Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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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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... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, Oh, Mama, do it again! And I had my earliest memory.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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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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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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Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
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Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
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The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
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... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
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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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Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
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