Billy couldn’t recall ever having seen a blind man laugh
Because we’re suffering from brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information.
Because we're suffering from brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information. [...] The flow is constant, Alfonse said. Words, pictures, numbers, fac...
And this is what I mainly learned up there, that the Parthenon was not a thing to study but to feel. It wasn't aloof, rational, timeless, pure. I couldn't locate the serenity of the place, the logic a...
Ample women do not plan such things. They lack the guile for conspiracies of the body.
A couple of sportsmen taking their ease.
A band played live Muzak.
A Greek will never say anything he hasn’t already said a thousand times. Her husband Charles reprimanded me for not knowing the word. To Charles it was a mark of one’s respect for other cultures to kn...
It occurred to me that perhaps in this city the crowd was essential to the individual; without it, he had nothing against which to scrape his anger, no echo for grief, and not the slightest proof that...
A closeness that felt sorry and cheap the minute she walked out of the room.
Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.
E depois? Você não fica se perguntando? Não apenas o mês que vem. Os anos. - Depois não tem nada. Não tem depois. O depois era isso. Oito anos atrás eles puseram uma bomba numa das torres. Ninguém per...
We are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.
Watched the coffee bubble up through the center tube and perforated basket into the small pale globe. A marvelous and sad invention, so roundabout, ingenious, human. It was like a philosophical argume...
It referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like.
Heat that rots ambition and stuns the intellect and will.
A life terrain, might itself be the object of a person’s study and wonder for years. A cosmology against the void.
[Lee Oswald] saw himself as part of something vast and sweeping. He was the product of a sweeping history, he and his mother, locked into a process, a system of money and property that diminished thei...
You try to predict movements by drawing on patterns in nature. Yes, of course, the mathematical properties of tree rings, sunflower seeds, the limbs of galactic spirals. I learned this. I loved the cr...
You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out - Murray (WN 285).