They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried...
They produced tobacco and papers and passed them to him not ceremoniously but with that deprecatory gesture of humility which country people confer in a look, a lift of the hand.
They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves.
They'd put an awning up over the gravesite but the weather was all sideways and it did no good.
Trousers rolled to the knee but still they got wet. They tied the rope to a cleat at the rear of the boat and rowed back across the lake, jerking the stump slowly behind them. By then it was already e...
Un hombre es así como quien está soñando un sueño de aflicción y despierta a una pena aún mayor. Todo lo que ama se ha convertido en una tortura. Alguien ha estirado la pinza del eje del universo. Tod...
Vuestro máximo deseo es que os cuente algún misterio. El misterio es que no hay ningún misterio.
We're going to be okay, aren't we Papa?Yes. We are.And nothing bad is going to happen to us.That's right.Because we're carrying the fire.Yes. Because we're carrying the fire.
Well, I think the questioner wants the truth. The doubter wants to be told there aint no such thing.
What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
What do you think death is, man? Of whom do we speak when we speak of a man who was and is not? Are these blind riddles or are they not some part of every man's jurisdiction? What is death if not an a...
What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted a...
What is true of one man, said the judge, is true of many.
What you wants with these goats anyway? Little or nothin. Good fresh milk. God’s best cheese. You have any other animals? said Suttree. Dog or anything? No. Just goats. I think a feller gets started w...
When the flames came up her eyes burned out there like gatelamps to another world. A world burning on the shore of an unknowable void. A world construed out of blood and blood's alcahest and blood in...
When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
When they had arranged their blankets the boy lowered the lamp and stepped into the yard and pulled the door shut behind, leaving them in profound and absolute darkness. No one moved. In that cold sta...
When you’re a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be, Billy said. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I think you just wind up tryin to minimize the pain. Anyway...
White: Well you surprise me. And you've come to what conclusions?Black: I aint. I'm still thinkin.White: Yes. Well, I'm not.Black: Things can change.White: No they cant.Black: You could be wrong.White...
Wrinkle not thy sable brow at me, my friend. All will be known to you at last. To you as to every man.
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