Is confidence based on a rate of exchange? We used to speak of sterling qualities. Have we got to talk now about a dollar love? A dollar love, of course, would include marriage and Junior and Mother's...
I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an end. I could name the very moment when it had begun, and one day I knew I should be able to name the...
Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire...
Death was far more certain than God.
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her...
As long as nothing happens anything is possible...
Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actio...
Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.
Love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;
You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.’ 2
You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of cheese. You don't do crosswords...
Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd like to, because now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the e...
Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried...
Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did.
When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was bett...
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.
She was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.