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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
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Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
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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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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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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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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
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In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.
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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 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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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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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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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.
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