I don't want anything from you but the fact of you.
I could wish that I had recourse to the Prince of Darkness & his quick ways of revenge;
HUSBAND: Is something wrong?BETHIE: Why--why do you ask?HUSBAND: You looked so lonely, suddenly. As if you'd forgotten I'm here.
Exotic: meaning you're desired.For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.
During these mad dashes to the wall phone in the kitchen she hadn't time to fall but with fantastical grace and dexterity wrenched herself upright in midfall and continued running (dogs whimpering, ya...
Clearly, boxing's very image is repulsive to many people because it cannot be assimilated into what we wish to know about civilized man. In a technological society possessed of incalculably refined me...
Being a grand-kid, you can so easily regress. All the ages you ever were are all recalled by the grandparent in a shimmery love-haze, like those blurred faces on tv, in which identities have been disg...
As long as you're in motion, your perspective is obscured. Only when you reach the summit and turn to look back, can you be at peace.
Ariah struck suddenly at her face with both fists. She wanted to pummel, blacken her eyes that had seen too much.
And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books.Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.
Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels—alone. AT
A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.
For, though the instinct to fight and to kill is surely qualified by one’s personal courage, the instinct to watch others fight and kill is evidently inborn. When the boxing fan shouts, ‘Kill him! Kil...
The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
You're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary o...
You had to have a deep, mysterious soul to want to destroy yourself. The shallower you are, the safer. Colborne
Unyielding—Oh Norma Jeane leads a crazy life, you see—she has a former husband very jealous of her—he is her ex but he is
For politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not
And both men listened as if hearing it for the first time, as we so frequently listen, in such circumstances, to tales whose outcomes we already know, or have already been told us by our friends.
[...] misinterpreting her silence for a broken heart, her cynicism about men for depression, ir despondency [...]