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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
Wing
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Existence
Enough

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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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Carolina beach music, Dupree said, coming up on the porch. The holiest sound on earth.
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Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.
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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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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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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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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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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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