For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
But we were friends all our childhood, a voice said inside her; and that other voice answered coldly, Friends are whom you choose, not the people forced on you by circumstances. And yet she was nearly...
But after all, to kind of like people, doc, puts you in a pretty privileged class for a start--so few citizens can afford to really kinda like people.
Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
When there's a war, people get married.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - nostalgia is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.
The nightmare takes various forms, comes in sleep, or in wakefulness, and can be pictured most simply like this: There is a blindfolded man standing with his back to the brick wall. He has been tortur...
He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on...
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind...
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
Laughter is by definition healthy.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
Žena bez muškarca ne može se upoznati s muškarcem, s bilo kojim muškarcem , bilo koje dobi, a da ne pomisli, makar to bilo i na pola sekunde: Možda je ovo pravi muškarac.
She had to fight for qualities that had not been even in her vocabulary. Patience. Self-discipline. Self-control. Self-abnegation. Chastity. Adaptability to others - this above all. This always.
You talk as if—a person is a person. A man is what he is. He can’t be anything else. You can’t change that.’ ‘Well then, I think that’s the real difference between us. Because I believe you can change...
Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
What you don’t understand is, people never believe these things. Not until they experience them. Then when they experience them they become people other people don’t believe. Hard lines.