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Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
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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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Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
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There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.
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The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
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We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
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My mother raised me to be a writer.
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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
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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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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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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 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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Carolina beach music, Dupree said, coming up on the porch. The holiest sound on earth.
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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 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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The safe places could only be visited they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
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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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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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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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There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
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Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
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