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Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
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Basketball Player
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Atlanta
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Patrick Conroy
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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 believe in happy families.
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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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Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
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These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
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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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We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, Oh, Mama, do it again! And I had my earliest memory.
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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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Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
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The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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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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If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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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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