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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
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
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Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.
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Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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A story untold could be the one that kills you.
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From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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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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My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
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