Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us—accounts of murders that had long since been solved, or whose salient characteristics were nothing like those of our case—bu...
Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walküre
The Career and Death of the Mad Thief and Murderer, Samuel Green.
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'...
Simplified Hegelian dialectical reasoning, with its thesis-antithesis-synthesis framework)
‘Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make…’ Mike
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 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...
How does the world look, I often found myself wondering, to a young man whose father is his enemy?
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.
Scythe on
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...
Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance.
Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
Leviathan that
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?
Still, it's an interesting technique--leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And *in* someone else.
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...