It is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.
He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. Within, but just barely was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit.
Δεν τον είχα φιλήσει αλλά ήξερα ότι θα γινόταν κι αυτό, και το ήξερε ότι το ήξερα, και υπήρχε κάτι σαν αμοιβαία χαρά σε τούτη την ολίσθηση προς το αναπόδραστο, κι ας μην ήξερα το όνομά του ή αν ο,τιδή...
P 271 There's a little songbird eaten whole, bones and everything, by French aristocrats. Illegal, and, by custom, enjoyed with a cloth over the face and head, like an executioners's hood. Maybe what...
Haberlerin özelliği bunların hiçbir zaman sizin başınıza gelmemesidir.
I thought of the girl in the photo in Ronnie's studio, the one on layaway. She was probably waiting for him this very moment, somewhere downtown. Checking the clock, applying lipstick, concentrating h...
Sometimes what other people want is wantable, briefly, before dissolving in the face of your own wants.
Ski racing was drawing in time, I said to Sandro. I finally had someone listening who wanted to understand: the two things I loved were drawing and speed, and in skiing I had combined them. It was dra...
Looking at someone who is looking at you was a drug as strong as any other.
We loved life more than the future.
Was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.
The three passions, Stanley had said to me that morning, are love, hate, and ignorance. Ignorance is the strongest.
We should torture language to tell the truth.
Save your freedom for a rainy day, someone had written on the bathroom wall at Rudy’s Bar in SoHo,
The thing about songwriting, John Dogg was saying to someone, is that you can address things obliquely, but no matter. You can’t get away from the content that is the essence of the form. All songs ar...
You couldn’t hate someone who saw the world so differently.
What happens between bodies during an insurrection is more interesting than the insurrection itself.
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
She always had that empty look. ... It's a particular blankness, and I've mostly seen it on billboards for so-called gentlemen's clubs. The convincing ones have that same empty look. Like they know ju...
The Sunset was transformed. The grocery store on Irving was gourmet. A girl I was friends with in high school worked the meat counter. People who looked like frat boys crowded the streets, wearing col...
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