Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't adm...
Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die. I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.
It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.
Stalin goes to visit one of the collectives outside of Moscow, began Kolya in his joke-telling voice. Wants to see how they’re getting on with the latest Five-Year Plan. ‘Tell me, comrade,’ he asks on...
I'm just not a natural teacher.
A young woman stood in the hallway, a suitcase at her feet, a cardboard carton in her hands. She wore a yellow cotton dress with a white flower print. The silver dragonfly on her necklace hung in the...
So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.- from the story "De Composition
The front door is usually unlocked and there is no alarm system. They don't wear their seat belts in the car; they don't wear suntan lotion in the sun. They have decided nothing can kill them but God...
The partisans would continue picking off Nazis; the Nazis would continue massacring noncombatants; and eventually the Fascists would learn that they could not win the war even if they killed thirty ci...
The days had become a confusion of catastrophes; what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening.
We always talk about how the first several seasons were faithful to the books, and anybody who wanted to could go onto Wikipedia and learn Ned Stark gets beheaded or about The Red Wedding, and most pe...
Nos pasábamos los minutos sobrantes cazando ratas, que debían de haber pensado que la desaparición de los gatos de la ciudad era la respuesta a todas sus antiguas plegarias, hasta que comprendieron qu...
Your mother and sister weren’t on the radio telling us all to be brave. Look, I don’t expect composers and poets to be heroes. I just don’t like hypocrites.
I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. I was bo...
He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.
She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.
Kata-kata yang ingin kau ucapkan sekarang... Jangan katakan. Dan itu, sobatku, adalah rahasia panjang umur.
You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen.
Itu cita-citamu? Menjadi penyair?Tidak. Aku tidak punya bakat untuk itu.Apa bakatmu?Aku tidak tahu. Tidak semua orang punya bakat?Benar. Meski orang-orang mengatakan sebaliknya.
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