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... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

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Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
Author
Basketball Player
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
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Silence
Lying
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... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for 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 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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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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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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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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