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Pelican Road QUOTES

Pelican Road QUOTES

1 " When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all manner of darkness. "

― Howard Bahr , Pelican Road

2 " You are strangers, too, sine nomine, even to yourselves. They "

― Howard Bahr , Pelican Road

3 " As it happened, adiversion had presented itself: a new clerk, a small girl of flawless complexion, her straw-colored hair pulled back in a ponytail, with a face that renewed a man’s faith in Possibility. "

― Howard Bahr , Pelican Road

4 " The truth was never easy, and it was never simple, and it had a way of breaking your heart. Thus men chose its imitation whenever possible and made the world fit the shape that suited them best. Smith believed man created God and Truth both in his own image, and he attached no blame to that. He had long ago decided that most people got along as best they could, trying to be brave, trying to be good, trying to subdue the terrors of life with whatever expectations lay easiest to hand. "

― Howard Bahr , Pelican Road

5 " Pelican Road, whence the train had come and to which it would soon return, was the name given the two hundred and seven miles of ballasted heavyweight main line rail between Meridian, Mississippi, and New Orleans. "

― Howard Bahr , Pelican Road

6 " He loved to be among people and talk to them, find out what they had done and what they believed in. He felt that everybody was a traveler on the same journey, and a person should be interested in what others had learned along the way. But the Public was a different matter. The Public was too delicate, too selfish and selfabsorbed, a loud collective Voice clamoring with complaints, demanding attention. "

― Howard Bahr , Pelican Road

7 " Lonesomeness, on the other hand, did not depend on circumstance. It was bolted in the heart and seized on a man’s weakness, a vise that squeezed all possibility out of time, that crushed hope and rendered meaningless anything tomorrow could offer. "

― Howard Bahr , Pelican Road