I've been sitting here and thinking about God. I don't think I believe in God any more. It is not only me, I think of all the millions who must have lived like this in the war. The Anne Franks. And ba...
Kuşkusuz, kendimizi olduğu gibi kabullenmek, daima ne olmamız gerektiğinin önüne geçmelidir; işte bu yüzden, bu bir adım öne gitmek demekti...John Fowles-The Magus (Büyücü)
Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and th...
She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking, ironing. Then, pass the next three or four Boheminanly on the floor in fr...
There were even times I thought I would forget her. But forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
They’re teaching you to express personality at the Slade – personality in general. But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it’s no go if your personality isn’t worth tra...
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who knows he's...
Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring
But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction.
As if I'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us. And all I'd done was to see his real face by it.
Ask me to marry you.Will you marry me?No.
Boredom, the numbing, annual predictability of life hung over the staff like a cloud. And it was real boredom, not my modish ennui. From it flowed cant, hypocrisy, and the impotent rage of the old who...
Cel care creează nu-l poate iubi pe cel care critică. Există o diferență prea mare între cele două activități. Una este naștere, cealaltă chirurgie.
Despite all the identifying, measuring, photographing, I had managed to set the experience in a kind of present past, a having looked, even as I was temporally and physically still looking...It is not...
From this skull-rock strange golden roots throwIkons and incidents; the man in the maskManipulates. I am the fool that fallsAnd never learns to wait and watch,Icarus eternally damned, the dupe of time...
Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.
He got up and said, I think you’ve got something in you. I don’t know. Women very rarely have. I mean most women just want to be good at something, they’ve got good-at minds, and they mean deftness an...
He said it as if ‘very rich’ was a nationality; as perhaps it is.
Showing 221 to 240 of 400 results