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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
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The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
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Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
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... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
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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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