Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.
It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in...
If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the...
I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?
I wish I could write well enough to write that story, he thought. What we did. Not what the others did to us.
I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterward it would seem as though it had really happened to me.
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
However you make your living is where your talent lies
How did you go bankrupt? Bill asked. Two ways, Mike said. Gradually and then suddenly.
Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.''I'll tell her,' I said.'Don't bother. I can always wait here. It's very pleasant in t...
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
He told me how he had first met her during the war and then lost her and won her back, and about their marriage and then about something tragic that had happened to them at St-Raphael about a year ago...
For sale: baby shoes, never used.
Fight them, he said. I’ll fight them until I die.
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary...
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.
I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.