In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. So often men trip by being in a rush. If one were properly to perform a difficult and subtle act, he should f...
If on'y they didn' tell me I got to get off, why, I'd prob'y be in California right now a-eatin' grapes an a-pickin' an orange when I wanted. But them sons-a-bitches says I got to get off-an', Jesus C...
If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. i'll just have to work from a background of...
I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do not love very much. For I have discovered that there are other rivers.
I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass.
I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical
He thought dawdling, protective thoughts, sitting under the lamp, but he knew that pretty soon hisname would be called and he would have to go up before the bench with himself as judge and his owncrim...
He put on a little knapsack and he walked through Indiana and Kentucky and North Carolina and Georgia clear to Florida. He walked among farmers and mountain people, among swamp people and fishermen. A...
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who...
Forse possiamo cominciare daccapo, in una terra nuova e ricca – in California, dove cresce la frutta. Cominceremo da capo. Ma noi non possiamo cominciare. Solo i neonati possono cominciare. Tu e io......
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment.
A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy—that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape du...
A luz do crepúsculo fazia brilhar a terra vermelha, de maneira que as suas dimensões se aprofundavam. Uma pedra, um poste, uma construção adquiriam mais profundidade e mais consistência então do que à...
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his c...
So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.
A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of se...
Um homem tem de ter qualquer coisa a que se ligue, qualquer coisa que ele possa estar certo de encontrar lá de manhã.