Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad.
But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.
But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a along with other rea...
But in the song there was a secret little inner song, hardly perceptible, but always there, sweet and secret and clinging, almost hiding in the counter-melody, and this was the Song of the Pearl That...
But Charley doesn’t have our problems. He doesn’t belong to a species clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself. He doesn’t even know about race, nor is he con...
Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.' . . . . I says, 'What's this...
At last he said, Did you come out of the big mountains?Gitano shook his head slowly. No, I walked down the Salinas Valley.The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. Did you ever go into the big moun...
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.
And, of course, people are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule- a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last...
And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. Lord! I wish I could go.Don’t you like it here?Sure. It’s all right, but I wish I could go.You don’t even know where I’...
And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity.
And her joy was nearly like sorrow.
All we got is the family unbroke.
Ah!' said Lee. 'I’ve wanted to tell you this for a long time. I even anticipated your questions and I am well prepared. Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable peopl...
A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities- never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. Thus Kino's future was real, but having set it up, other forces were set...
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well--or ill?
Of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule - a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. Th...
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
قالت الأم بهدوء: أشكرك. لقد تعلمت شيئاً حقيقياً رائعاً، وهو أنك لو وقعت في ورطة أو كنت في حاجة للمساعدة، فتوجه للناس الفقراء. فهم الوحيدون الذين يقدمون المساعدة، الوحيدون فقط
In 50 years, did you ever have a vacation, you little, silly, half-pint, smidgin of a wife?