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My mother raised me to be a writer.

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 pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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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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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
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I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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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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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
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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 loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
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I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of total joy.
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