Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your...
You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.
People were standing up everywhere shouting, This is me! This is me! Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and the truth of it was that they had no more idea who or w...
This kindly unjudging judgment of the Swede could well have been a new development in Jerry, compassion a few hours old. That can happen when people die--the argument with them drops away and people s...
If you're from New Jersey, Nathan had said, and you write thirty books, and you win the Nobel Prize, and you live to be white-haired and ninety-five, it's highly unlikely but not impossible that after...
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach-that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again.
All this, this luck – what did it mean? Coming so suddenly, and on such a scale, it was as baffling as a misfortune.
There is something fascinating about what moral suffering can do to someone who is in no obvious way a weak or feeble person. It’s more insidious even than what physical illness can do, because there...
أمن أجل ذلك صُنع الخلود، لكي يخوض المرء في تفاصيل عمره؟
Worship me, she says, worship the mistery of the bleeding goddess, and you do it. You stop at nothing. You lick it. You consume it. You digest it. She penetrates you.What next, David? A glass of her u...
В пълното си право съм да се социализирам както и колкото намеря за добре.
It's a big deal for working people to buy a diamond, he told his sons, no matter how small.The wife can wear it for the beauty and she can wear it for the status. Andwhen she does, this guy is not jus...
He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this?
We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there’s no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace...
You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untank-like as you can be, sans cannon and mac...
This ordinarily even-tempered man struck furiously at his heart likesome fanatic at prayer, and, assailed by remorse not just for this mistake but for all hismistakes, all the ineradicable, stupid, in...
It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
To have enslaved America with this hocuspocus! To have captured the mind of the world's greatest nation without uttering a single word of truth! Oh, the pleasure we must be affording the most malevole...
Time having transformed his own body into a storehouse for man-made contraptions designed to fend off collapse... there was only our bodies, born to live and die on terms decided by the bodies that ha...
These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age—they're drawn to the age, they do it for the age. Why? In Consuela's case, because the vast difference in age gives her permission to submit, I t...
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