For we have thought the longer thoughtsAnd gone the shorter way.And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray;To serve one master in the night,Another in the day.
Drink it down, baby, and look forward to being sick.
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a...
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
اين داستانها متقاضی ندارند، ولی روزی آنها را خواهند فهمید؛ همان طور که برای نقاشیها هم این اتفاق میافتد. فقط به زمان احتیاج است و اعتماد به نفس...
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appoin...
To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and...
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were...
Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling.
The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.
The fiesta was really started. It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on. The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta....
That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.
Some made the long drop from the apartment or the office window; some took it quietly in two-car garages with the motor running; some used the native tradition of the Colt or Smith and Wesson; those w...