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I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

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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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... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
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There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.
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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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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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... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
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My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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