Uma sociedade democrática condena as pessoas ao acidente da concepção? - esbravejava o Dr. Larch. - O que somos nós...? Macacos? Se esperamos que as pessoas sejam responsáveis por seus filhos, então é...
They were members of Maine’s very small money class. Their business, as they ridiculously called it, didn’t make a cent, but they didn’t need to make money; they were born rich. Their needless enterpr...
There was no solution, Tolstoy writes in Anna Karenina, but the universal solution that life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of...
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
The student and the teacher had contrasting ideas about the sentence, which was: There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
The point was - he wasn't . It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he was out of character... Jack had acting. He was just Jack Burns - the Jack Burns at last.
THERE'S NO MONKEY BUSINESS ABOUT THIS ELECTION,' he told the voters. 'IF YOU'RE ENOUGH OF AN ASSHOLE TO VOTE FOR NIXON, YOUR DUMB VOTE WILL BE COUNTED––JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE!
Stewart, Jr. who was called Stewie Two, graduated from Steering before Garp was even of age to enter the school; Jenny treated Stewie Two twice for a sprained ankle and once for gonorrhea. He later we...
So that's what it means to be a nonpracticing homosexual, I thought: it means I don't know what I am!
She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
Reagan DeclaresFirmness on Gulf;Plans are UnclearIsn't that classic? I don't mean the semicolon; I mean, isn't that just what the world needs? Unclear firmness! That is typical American policy: don't...
Preschool tests revealed that Jack Burns had a vocabulary beyond his years, which is not uncommon among only children accustomed to adult conversation – especially only children of single parents.
Now and forever, Juan Diego said, more confidently. He knew this was a promise to himself—to seize every opportunity that looked like the future, from this moment forward.
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
No es buen momento para un terremoto, Lupe used to say. It’s not a good moment for an earthquake.
Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic, Richard told me. And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.
Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note.'Sorry,' said the note.'Just not big enough.
Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you
It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more th...
It was not the cold that made you want to rush out as soon as you'd jumped in; it was the unmeasured depth - our fear of what was on the bottom, and how far below us the bottom was.