You talk about the Catholics and the Negroes— said the G-man, and yet, here your two best friends are a Catholic and a Negro. What’s so mysterious about that? said Jones. Don’t you hate them? said the...
Years and years. Why did it have to happen? It was one more hollow echo to the question humanity had been asking for millenniums, the question men were seemingly born to ask
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Billy now leaned over that parapat, looked down at all the people moving hither and yon. They were jerky little scissors. They were a lot of fun.
Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.
The therapist, after a deeply upsetting investigation of normality at this time and place, was bound to conclude that a normal person, functioning well on the upper levels of a prosperous, industriali...
Its basic axiom is to be followed by individuals as well as great nations, by Losers and Winners alike. We have demonstrated the workability of the axiom in Vietnam, in Bangladesh, in Biafra, in Pales...
Also, and again I intend no offense, the most meaningful and often harrowing adventures which I and many like me have experienced have had to do with the rearing of children. Howl does not deal with s...
Сколько лет прошло, пока мы поняли, что смысл человеческой жизни — кто бы человеком ни управлял, — только в том, чтобы любить тех, кто рядом с тобой, кто нуждается в твоей любви.
Myself have seen the bodies of schoolgirls who were boiled alive in a water tower by my own countrymen, who were proud of fighting pure evil at the time. This
What a clever trap your Ruling Class set for us, he went on. First the atomic bomb. Now this.Trap? I echoed wonderingly.They looted your public and corporate treasuries, and turned your industries ove...
We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do,What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must; Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,muddily do,Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
Americans, in being hated, were simply paying the normal penalty for being people, and that they were foolish to think they should somehow be exempted from that penalty.
Well finish your story anyway."Where was I?"The bubonic plague. The bulldozer was stalled by corpses."Oh, yes. Anyway, one sleepless night I stayed up with Father while he worked. It was all we could...
Дядек, у всех дураков одна беда — по крайней глупости они даже не представляют себе, что на свете есть такая штука, как здравый смысл.
Sooner or later someone’s going to catch the imagination of these people with some new magic. At the bottom of it will be a promise of regaining the feeling of participation, the feeling of being need...
Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in the homes of nice people it was and remains pretty much taboo to tell tales of labor’s s...
A huge fireplace and Dutch oven of fieldstone filled one wall. Over them hung a long muzzle-loading rifle, powder horn, and bullet pouch. On the mantel were candle molds, a coffee mill, an iron and tr...