The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
Tell me what matters, BZ said.Nothing, Maria said.
Someday it all comes.
So now the girl whose life is a crystal teardrop has her own place, a place where the sun shines and the ambiguities can be set aside a little while longer, a place where everyone can be warm and lovi...
Of course we would all like to believe in something, like to assuage our private guilts in public causes, like to lose our tiresome selves; like, perhaps, to transform the white flag of defeat at home...
No one should ever be forced upon those in grief, and all over-emotional people, no matter how near or dear, should be barred absolutely. Although the knowledge that their friends love them and sorrow...
No one could have missed the reservoir of self-pity, the quickness to blame, the narrowing of the eyes, as if in wildlife documentary, when things did not go his [Clinton] way. That famous tendency of...
It is the phenomenon somethings called alienation from self. In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in s...
In short I tried to think. I failed. My attention veered inexorably back to thespecific, to the tangible, to what was generally considered, by everyone I knew then andfor that matter have known since,...
In one guise or another, Indians always are. Again, it is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price. People who respect themselves are willing to accept the risk that the Indi...
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
I need you to write something down, he said. It was, he said, for his new book, not for mine, a point he stressed because I was at the time researching a book that involved sports...When I gave him th...
I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and...
I knew that it would cost something sooner or later—because I did not belong there, did not come from there—but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emot...
I have neither heard nor read that a Santa Ana is due, but I know it, and almost everyone I have seen today knows it too. We know it because we feel it. The baby frets. The maid sulks. I rekindle a wa...
I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.
I am dropping my keys on the table inside the door before I fully remember. There is no one to hear this news, nowhere to go with the unmade plan, the uncompleted thought. There is no one to agree, di...
Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.
En épocas difíciles, me habían dicho desde niña, lee, aprende, prepárate, recurre a la literatura.
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, kn...