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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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In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.
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Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.
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Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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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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I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.
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The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
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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'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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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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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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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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My mother raised me to be a writer.
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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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Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.
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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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