Growing old isn’t for pussies.
Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.
But Harry wondered if he might be getting too old for the dispiriting adventure that seemed to inevitably accompany the need for human contact.
Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn’t give.
Behind every vocation there is a fetish.
Because it is about that which we can’t be prepared for—the great test we men have passed before, but have no way of knowing we will pass again.
Asentí con la cabeza. Al fin y al cabo asentir no puede considerarse exactamente una mentira, ¿no?
إن الأشخاص الذين يعيشون حياة ثانية، كالأشخاص الذين يتزوجون للمرة الثانية، يأخذون كل ما يقومون به عادة على محمل الجد على نحو أكبر مما كانوا يفعلونه من قبل. إذيبدو لهم أن كل لحظة هي أثمن من اللحظة التي...
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This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better houses with more mod cons, the painstaking accumulation of comfort and, wit...
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The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.
Sometimes he'd get home before the children were asleep, and carry them around on his back, kick balls with them, and tell them stories of pigs with spiders on their heads. Other times he would turn u...
She screamed—more like a week. She informed me that a woman who doesn’t have an orgasm a day will get dry skin, and lines. According to her you should rub your lover’s semen into your forehead.
Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.
People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about Cuba and Russia and the economy, because beneath the hard structure of...
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