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... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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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You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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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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I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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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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Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.
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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 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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If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to 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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I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
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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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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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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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The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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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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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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Carolina beach music, Dupree said, coming up on the porch. The holiest sound on earth.
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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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