And if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in her rose garden, they were cocktail dresses that she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. Even in her rose garden, she did not want to b...
And Juan Diego had selected this particular book because it was in English; he’d wanted more practice reading English, though his less-than-rapt audience (Lupe and Rivera and the disagreeable dog Dirt...
And Father said, There are no happy endings. Right! cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature, Coach Bob decla...
Almost none of them understood Great Expectations or David Copperfield, anyway. They were not only too young for the Dickensian language, they were also too young to comprehend the usual language of S...
A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct of philanthropy
A man named Hero washed the press cloths; Meany Hyde told Homer that the man had been a kind of hero, once. ‘That’s all I heard. He’s been comin’ here for years, but he was a hero. Just once,’ Meany a...
Worst of all were the highly unlikely science-fiction novels, or the equally implausible futuristic tales.Couldn't my mom and Nana Victoria see for themselves that I was both mystified and frightened...
One of the more sophisticated and accepting things about Europe, when it came to difficult decisions regarding sexual identity, was that the Europeans were so used to sexual differences that they had...
Not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.
The surprised bookseller, whose name (inexplicably) was Mendelssohn. He was no relation to the German composer, and this Mendelssohn either overliked his last name or disliked his first so much that h...
Rūpinkitės savo gyvenimu, - pasakė Zajoncas Harvardo studentams. - Jeigu jau tiek pasiekėte, jūsų profesiniai reikalai turėtų susitvarkyti savaime.
Owen speaks in all caps throughout the story) SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY - NOT QUITE YOUNG ANYMORE, BUT NOT OLD EITHER; A LITTLE BREATHLESS, VERY BEAUTIFUL, MAYBE A LITTLE STUPID, MAYBE A LOT...
Тренер Боб знал это с самого начала: ты должен стать одержимым и не растерять одержимости. Ты должен и дальше проходить мимо открытых окон.
То, как устроен этот мир, не может служить основанием для слепого цинизма или незрелого отчаяния; миром — так верили они, Айова Боб и мой отец, — двигает, как бы скверно это у него ни получалось, стра...
Когда неожиданно умирает любимый человек, ты теряешь его не сразу. Это происходит постепенно, шаг за шагом, на протяжении долгого времени, — так перестают приходить письма, — вот улетучился знакомый з...
So my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her...
Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have...
Your memory is a monster; you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think yo...
You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, have this problem; for us, a so-called train of thought, though unspoken, is unstoppable.
You don't sound very well Owen. I pointed out to him. IF JESUS HAD TO BE BORN ON A DAY LIKE THIS. I DON'T THINK HE'D HAVE LASTED LONG ENOUGH TO BE CRUCIFIED. Owen said.