Willie tried to enlist in the army and was turned down; whereupon he threw his job, came home, announced that he was a failure, and went to bed. (...) He said he was going to stay in bed and never get...
We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand ourselves.
Then I've been drunk, too, admitted Francie.On beer?No. Last spring, in McCarren's Park, I saw a tulip for the first time in my life.
The tree man eulogized them by screaming, 'And now get the hell out of here with your tree, you lousy bastards.'Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no mea...
That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and mak...
Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.
Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.
Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a t...
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let...
Katie! Don't nag! All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the life it's in him to live.
Katie had married Johnny because she liked the way he sang and danced and dressed. Womanlike, she set about changing all those things in him after marriage.
It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame an...
It there's one thing certain, it's that we all have to get old someday. So get used to the idea as quickly as you can.
It takes a lot of doing to die.
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and...
If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful it really is.
I'm glad I got you!
I'll not punish you for having an imagination.
From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.