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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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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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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 he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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