American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
PAT CONROY
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.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
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Carolina beach music,” Dupree said, coming up on the porch. “The holiest sound on earth.
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