A wind came up and broke the sea into green and silver chunks, like a field of glass and chrome, and the boat began to rock and pitch about more...The waves got bigger as we got closer to shore, and f...
All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to diffe...
Doctor … I’m going mad; the final complete flip, it’s swooping down out of the hills at me! He had only smiled, condescendingly and therapeutically. No, Leland, not you. You, and in fact quite a lot o...
Does the Spearmint lose its flavor on the bedpost over night?
Ez nem én vagyok. Ez nem lehet énnekem az arcom. Az se én voltam, aki ezt az arcot először fölpróbáltam. Se akkor, se most – csak amit az emberek kinéznek belőlem, úgy nézek ki. Mintha kinézetre sose...
For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, whatever the force, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, your name,...
God looks out for fools and niggers.
He’s got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap.
I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.
I knew even before we got it rolling that this here was the type asshole that subscribed to magazines like the Nation and Atlantic and probably even read them, and that I didn't stand a snowball's cha...
I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that...
It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it was spring a while back, then it was summer, and now it's fall-that's...
It’s like each face was a sign like one of those I’m Blind signs the dago accordion players in Portland hung around their necks, only these signs say I’m tired or I’m scared or I’m dying of a bum live...
Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail
She don’t lose on her losses, but she wins on ours. To beat her you don’t have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon a...
The river split for the jump of a red-gilled silver salmon, then circled to mark the spot where it fell. Spoonbills shoveled at the crimson mud in the shallows, and dowitchers jumped from cattail to c...
The story is told that when Joe was a child his cousins emptied his Christmas stocking and replaced the gifts with horse manure. Joe took one look and bolted for the door, eyes glittering with excitem...
The walls are white as the white suits, polished clean as a refrigerator door, and the black face and hands seem to float against it like a ghost.
The world news might not be therapeutic.
They think they know the book by its cover, but the knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never opens up and comes out, it can be warped to fit the image others see.. . .No, a book wasn't...
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