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Pat Conroy

Born: October 26, 1945

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer, novelist

Biography: Pat Conroy is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films.

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“I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.”

- Pat Conroy

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“I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'”

- Pat Conroy

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“I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.”

- Pat Conroy

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“My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.”

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“I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.”

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“Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'”

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“Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.”

- Pat Conroy

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“I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.”

- Pat Conroy

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“When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.”

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“I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.”

- Pat Conroy

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“The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.”

- Pat Conroy

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“A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.”

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“I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.”

- Pat Conroy

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“I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.”

- Pat Conroy

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