You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.
While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept...
WHEREVER WE HAD BEEN in Russia, in Moscow, in the Ukraine, in Stalingrad, the magical name of Georgia came up constantly. People who had never been there, and who possibly never could go there, spoke...
Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars.
Two features would be with her always. Her chin was firm and her mouth was as sweet as a flower and very wide and pink. Her hazel eyes were sharp and intelligent and completely fearless.
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It...
They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That's a running sore.
The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she a...
Samuel said that Tom was quavering over greatness, trying to decide whether he could take the cold responsibility. Samuel knew his son’s quality and felt the potential of violence, and it frightened h...
S-l-o-w-ness--it gave meaning to everything. It made everything royal.
Minds me of a story they tell about Willy Feeley when he was a young fella. Willy was bashful, awful bashful. Well, one day he takes a heifer over to Graves' bull. Ever'body was out but Elsie Graves,...
It’s all fine to say, Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do no...
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.