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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
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
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Silence
Lying
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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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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.
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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 only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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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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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
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There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
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Families without songs are unhappy families.
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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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