Os pequenos fazendeiros observam como as dívidas sobem insensivelmente, como o crescer da maré. Cuidaram das árvores sem vender a colheita, podaram e enxertaram e não puderam colher as frutas.Este peq...
One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
New YorkNovember 10, 1958Dear Thom:We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.First—if you are in love—that’s a good thing—that’s about...
Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.
Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well,...
Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans
Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. Don’t you see? he cried. The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignoranc...
Lee, I’m not good enough for him.Now, what do you mean by that?I’m not being funny. He doesn’t think about me. He’s made someone up, and it’s like he put my skin on her. I’m not like that—not like the...
Le donne guardavano gli uomini, li guardavano per capire se stavolta sarebbero crollati. Le donne guardavano e non dicevano niente. E quando gli uomini erano in gruppo, la paura spariva dai loro volti...
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.
It was supposed that the pearl buyers were individuals acting alone, bidding against one another for the pearls the fishermen brought in. And once it had been so. But this was a wasteful method, for o...
It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.
It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one d...
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and...
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.
It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.
Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over...
In these terrific Georgians we had met more than our match. They could out-eat us, out-drink us, out-dance us, out-sing us. They had the fierce gaiety of the Italians, and the physical energy of the B...