Of course: because it was in one of the camps that he went blind. They had performed some failed experiment on his eyes in the camp.‘No, not summer camp,’ Franny had to tell Lilly, who had always been...
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
My dear boy, Miss Frost said sharply. My dear boy, please don't put a label on me - don't make a category before you get to know me!
My brain is sending poison to my heart.
Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God
Melville’s Moby-Dick—
Melony put herself straight to bed without her dinner. Mrs. Grogan, worried about her, went to Melony’s bed and felt her forehead, which was feverish, but Mrs. Grogan could not coax Melony to drink an...
Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.
Listen to me, Bill, Richard said. Let the librarian be your new best friend. If you like what she's given you to read, trust her. The library, the theater, a passion for novels and plays - well, Bill,...
Just accept as a fact that everyone of any emotional importance to you is related to everyone else of any emotional importance to you; these relationships need not extend to blood, of course, but the...
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.
It had been a startling day for young Copperfield: most of the morning confined in an enema-bag carton; his first attempt at flight; his long fall through the weeds; and then sitting on that dead man’...
If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have...
I think you’re being selfish. What do you mean, selfish? Wally asked. A war is for your country, it’s serving your country! To you, it’s an adventure, Candy said. That’s what’s selfish about it.
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.
I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you.
Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough...
Homer Wells non si sentiva in salvo. Chi mai, innamorato e insoddisfatto per come il suo amore è ricambiato, chi mai si sente in salvo? Al contrario, Homer Wells si sentiva preso di mira e perseguitat...
Hietzingin eläintarhassa on vain yksi ruokkiperheen edustaja. Se on pienin ruokkilaji, jota kuvataan pienikokoiseksi ja nuivanaamaiseksi ja aika tyhmäksi; sen tiedetään vaeltaneen pitkin polkuja, miss...
Here in St. Cloud’s, Dr. Larch wrote, I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance...