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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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The wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.
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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
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The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
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Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
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I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.
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Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?
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Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
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I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
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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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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
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The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
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He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
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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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Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.
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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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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
Pat Conroy
Born:
October 26, 1945
Died:
March 4, 2016
(aged 70)
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