Marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don't be alarmed, and don't resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. In the long run, it's the unasked-for hot-water bottles on winter nights that matter mo...
Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized.
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
My heart’s a clubbed baby seal.
No entiendo cómo no te diste cuenta de que se trataba de una idea descabellada.Todas las revoluciones son una idea descabellada hasta que suceden; entonces se convierten en realidades históricas inevi...
No one else has lived this life.
The newborn; the growing; the strong-willed and pliant; the ailing; the dying; the weak and defiant; over the roof of a painter withdrawn first from the world, then his family, and down into a masterp...
No wonder it's all such a fucking mess. I divided up my possible futures, put them into separate accounts, and now they're all spent. Big thoughts for a bent little lawyer.
Nothing exists that cannot be synthesised.
Nothing often poses in men as wisdom. Spring
Nothing often poses in men as wisdom.
Nowadays not even the villains smoke. Now smoking really is an expression of the rebel spirit—it’s virtually sodding illegal! Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavorless.
On an impulse he cannot explain, he buys himself a one-way ticket - and the evening of that very same day finds him wandering the streets of the old colonial quarter of the Colombian town. Girls in lo...
One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a Greenwich avenue of mature chestnuts and mock oranges in a state of grace. Those Regency residences number amount London's...
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years. The End is what we want, so I'm afraid the End is what we're damn well going to get.
Prejudice is permafrost
Psychological complexity, character development, the killer line to end a scene, villains blotched with virtue, heroic characters speckled with villainy, foreshadow and backflash, artful misdirection.
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