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...
But how is it justice, God? Why do I deserve this? She waited. God declined to reply. How
Bullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like everybody else. Everybody is dead.
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...
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.
And I like your laugh, Sabbath; it’s inaudible.
An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.
Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels—alone. AT
A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.
A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.
A hero can be fool, he's still a hero.
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...
Her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.
I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.
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
No one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.
Grip of Paradox. A predatory bird with a great sharp beak and vicious talons—Paradox. To be in its grip is to suffer, yet so exquisitely, one might mistake the experience for a kind of ecstasy.
For politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not