The leafless trees, with their black branches stretched hysterically in every direction, looked to him like illustrations of a central nervous system racked by disease: studies of human suffering anat...
Is there ever anything to get worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly?
An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams do? Faint with pleasure? Clap their cloven hooves? Lean against som...
In the Dodge City of romantic love, crowded with betrayal, abandonment and rejection, it was better to fire first than to take the risk of being gunned down.
Once he had taken heroin he could imagine being without it;
The shock of standing again under the wide pale sky, completely exposed. This must be what the oyster feels when the lemon juice falls.
Lying on a pile of pillows and smaller cushions, slurping her coffee and playing with her cigarette smoke, she felt briefly that her thoughts were growing more subtle and expansive.
Observe Everything. Always think for yourself. Never let other people make important decisions for you.
A face like a crème brûlée after the first blow of the spoon,
Nevertheless,
How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...
But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn’t all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn’t have been the real thing.
They had never met, but she had come to understand what had driven Victor’s wife to seek refuge in a full set of Snoopy mugs.
The drive rose sharply to the left of the steps to a circle of flat ground where her maroon Buick was parked under an umbrella pine. It looked preposterous, stretched out on its white-walled tyres aga...
Nevertheless, she treasured the idea that the Fauberts were connected to the earth in some wholesome way that the rest of us had forgotten.
And my heart is a handful of dust, / And the wheels go over my head, / And my bones are shaken with pain, / For into a shallow grave they are thrust, / Only a yard beneath the street,’ something, some...
Maybe they are intended to be images about emptiness,’ said the man solemnly. ‘I think that’s something the kids are very much in touch with right now.’ ‘How can you be in touch with emptiness?’ asked...
But that's what the English mean, isn't it, when they say, He was very philosophical about it? They mean that someone stopped thinking about something.
Earl, who seemed to be in an almost perpetual state of amazement at the things he said, shook his head again.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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