Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.
It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war...
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war af...
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.
Akimbo,
Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an epilogue, and after that you're inclined to go on wondering about the characters or i...
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of co...
Perhaps when you live your entire life among such scenes, they do not register as beauty but as the world itself—
People seem to believe that despair is the same as anguish, but it is not. It's true that despair is surrounded by anguish, but at its core, despair is a silent, blank page.
Politicians who talk about purity usually end up deciding who is pure and who is not.
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
She ate like a polite wolf.
Si tuvieras que elegir entre la cordura, tu vida tal como la recuerdas, antes que la verdadera inestabilidad, ¿qué elegirías como manera adecuada para vivir de un estudioso?
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
That is the beauty of the solid Marxist education you did not have the privilege of receiving. Believe me, you can find labor issues in any topic if you look hard enough.
The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.
[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition?...
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.
The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.
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