He’s a journalist. They come in two varieties, cynics and liars.
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren'...
The country that manufactures nothing, ran the old saying in such towns, eventually becomes nothing;
It isn’t really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn’t want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society—more important, even, than honest or...
Simplified Hegelian dialectical reasoning, with its thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework)
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. —SIR JOHN LUBBOCK THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE AND THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 1892
The hateful relationship between Japheth Dury and his mother must, we reasoned, have spilled over into self-hatred, as well—for how could any boy despised by his mother fail to question his own worth?
Lawyers like that, as I’ve told you, generally think they have nothing to learn from Jesus Christ himself when it comes to being saviors with a mission. Annoying them is like falling off of a log, rea...
Kreizler emphasized that no good would come of conceiving of this person as a monster, because he was most assuredly a man (or a woman); and that man or woman had once been a child. First and foremost...
It is often difficult, I find, for people today to grasp the notion that one family, working through several restaurants could change the eating habit of an entire country. But such was the achievemen...
How does the world look, I often found myself wondering, to a young man whose father is his enemy?
Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance.
— Так которая из них — настоящая она? — уже едва не вопил я, чувствуя, что начинаю запутываться, и не очень-то этому радуясь.— Ни та, ни другая, Стиви, — объяснила мисс Говард, немного снизив темп рад...
— Ну ясное дело, что он агностик, — вмешался мистер Пиктон. — Он же адвокат. В нашем мире может быть только один высочайший спаситель, и адвокаты предпочитают самолично исполнять эту роль.
‘Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make…’ Mike
Scythe on
Still, it's an interesting technique--leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And *in* someone else.
It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their...
Change isn't something that most people enjoy, even if it's progressive change.
Change isn't something most people enjoye, even if it's progressive change.