The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They’d probably stay that way unless Ap...
I’d actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there’d be no limit to the fiends I...
That's what I've always found so pathetic about . They weep when they have a live glimpse of you, frame the fork you touched. Yet they're impervious to anything with that inspiration, like enriching...
Sometimes people surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can’t they?
I don't . Religion? Humans desperate to take out infinity insurance. Death? The great big . Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.
How was it possible scientists were able to locate the edge of the observable universe, the Cosmic Light Horizon (Our universe is 13.7 billion light years long, wrote Harry Mills Cornblow, Ph.D., with...
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-...
And that fear I'd felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the ordinary world- watching CNN, reading the Times, walking to Sant Ambroeus to h...
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.
It sounds like something out of a night film. Not real life.
Connie Madison Parker, age 36, on Merchandise: You got to put yourgoods on display, babe. Otherwise, not only will the boys ignore you but—an'trust me on this, my sister's flat as you—we're talkin' th...
It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.
If all histories have a period known as The Golden Age, somewhere betweenThe Beginning and The End, I suppose those Sundays during Fall Semesterat Hannah's were just that, or, to quote one of Dad's tr...
…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.
He chose you because a plain setting makes the diamond sparkle brighter.
We're living longer, we social network alone with our , and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a .
We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things
Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even c...
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -
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