Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who’d discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer—life is futility, a deeply terrible experienc...
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
Nathan called all shiksas Maria--the explanation seemed as ludicrously simple as that.
She had been stopped when Morty was killed, stopped from going forward, and all the logic went out of her life. She wanted life, as all people do, to be logical and linear, as orderly as she made the...
She might have wallowed a long while in the pleasures of resistance and the challenge of discovering how unrestrained she could be. But she would have been at home. At home you flip out a little and t...
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
That’s what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.
Who are they now? They are the simplest version possible of themselves... They are out from under everything ever piled on top of them.
Yes, alone we are, deeply alone, and always, in store for us, a layer of loneliness even deeper. There is nothing we can do to dispose of that. No, loneliness shouldn’t surprise us, as astonishing to...
You are America. Yes, you are, my wicked boy. When we flew to New York and drove in on the highway, whatever the highway is, and those graveyards that are surrounded by cars and the traffic, and that...
Everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say; and everything you do does either more than you wanted it to do or less than you wanted it to do.
Hoe weemoedig hij soms ook mocht kijken naar zulke echtparen in de vallende schemering of op zondagmiddagen, de week had nog meer uren en hun leven was niets voor hem, als hij zijn melancholie weer de...
Other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.
حينما تكون شاباً، فإن الجسد الخارجي هو ما يهم، كيف تبدو خارجياً، وحينما تكبر يتركز الاهتمام على ما هو بالداخل، ويتوقف الناس عن الاهتمام بالكيفية التي تبدو عليها.
ضعف الآخرين قد يحطّمك بالقدر الذي تستطيع قوتهم أن تفعل ذلك
A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.
Nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others
He was seething suddenly with remorse, because of having done what he'd done and because he hadn't done more. Seething with outrage too, about Basel more than anything--as outraged by what Nathan had...
As an artist the nuance is your . Your task is to simplify. Even should you choose to write in the simplest way, a la Hemingway, the task remains to impart the nuance, to elucidate the complication,...
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