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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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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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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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When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.
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I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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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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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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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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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
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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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Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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