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... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

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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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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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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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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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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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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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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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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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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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
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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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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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Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.
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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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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
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My mother raised me to be a writer.
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