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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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Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
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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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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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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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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
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A story untold could be the one that kills you.
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There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
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We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, Oh, Mama, do it again! And I had my earliest memory.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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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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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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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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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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Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.
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