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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

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 word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
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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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