And I'll tell you something else. A minority has its own kind of aggression. It absolutely dares the majority to attack it. It hates the majority - not without a cause, I grant you. It even hates the...
A minority is only thought of a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary.
He begins to feel this utterly mysterious unsensational thing - not bliss, not ecstasy, not joy- das Glueck, le bonheur, la felicidad- they have given it all three genders but one has to admit, howeve...
There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.
Sometimes Arthur talked about his childhood. As a boy he was delicate and had never been sent to school. An only son, he lived alone with his widowed mother, whom me adored. Together they studied lite...
Oh, I know you. You're soft, like most men. You make up romances about people instead of seeing them as they are.
Lo specchio, più che un volto, riflette l'espressione di una difficoltà. Ecco cosa mi sono fatto, ecco il pasticcio che dio sa come ho combinato negli ultimi cinquantotto anni; espresso da uno sguardo...
I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain, but you'd be surprised if you knew what it had meant to me, at critical moments of my life, to be...
I mean, I'm not naive enough to imagine that anyone can be satisfied indefinitely by memories, especially if he's young and full of life, like you. I did my best to help you build up a reserve to keep...
I do and always shall maintain that it is the privilege of the richer but less mentally endowed members of the community to contribute to the upkeep of people like myself.
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As...
But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I...
Berlin was in a state of civil war. Hate exploded suddenly, without warning, out of nowhere; at street corners, in restaurants, cinemas, dance halls, swimming-baths; at midnight, after breakfast, in t...
Şeytanları yok ediyorlarsa, polisler melek demektir, öyle değil mi? Eh, akla yatkın. Polislerin melek olduğu yer de ancak tımarhane olabilir.
İkimiz de güldük. Sally dedim, senin sevdiğim yanın ne biliyor musun? Bu kadar kolayca kandırılabilmen. Hiç kandırılamayan insanlar öylesine can sıkıcı ve ruhsuz oluyorlar ki!Beni hâlâ seviyor musun,...
Öyle konular vardır ki yaşamda, sana soruluncaya kadar kendin bile bunları bildiğini bilmezsin.
You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to ke...
I had failed him; I knew it. But I could do no more. It was beyond my strength.That night, I think, he explored the uttermost depths of his loneliness.
Christ, it is sad, sad to see on quite a few of these faces - young ones particularly - a glum, defeated look. Why do they feel this way about their lives? Sure, they are underpaid. Sure, they have no...
I thought of Natalia: she has escaped – none too soon, perhaps. However often the decision may be delayed, all these people are ultimately doomed. This evening is the dress-rehearsal of a disaster. It...