I don’t know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.
Poi si voltò verso di me, per farmi vedere com'era arrabbiata, e che quella rabbia era per me. Stava parlando tra sè, quindi quello che disse ad alta voce fu solo il frammento di una conversazione più...
Since all the property is undamaged, has the world lost anything it loved?
There is a fine article in the current Reader’s Digest with the title, There are No Atheists in Foxholes.
This is not the case. I find scant evidence in my nonfiction that I have matured at all. I cannot find a single idea I hadn’t swiped from somebody else and enunciated plonkingly by the time I reached...
Today we do. On other days we have wars as horrible as any you've ever seen or read about. There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity...
Trout's favorite formula was to describe a perfectly hideous society, not unlike his own, and then, toward the end, to suggest ways in which it could be improved. In 2BRO2B he hypothecated an America...
War is now a form of TV entertainment
We humanists try to behave as decently, as fairly, and as honorably as we can without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife.
World War Two had certainly made everyone very tough.
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...
You want to know why I don’t have AIDS, why I’m not HIV-positive like so many other people? I don’t fuck around. It’s as simple as that. Trout
Think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago.
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living...
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water.
It had to be done, Rumfoord told Billy, speaking of the destruction of Dresden. I know, said Billy. That’s war. I know. I’m not complaining. It must have been hell on the ground. It was, said Billy Pi...
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
To be is to do - SocratesTo do is to be - SartreDo Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
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