Cuando apareció, Darwin cometimos ese error. Lo recibimos con los brazos abiertos y también a Huxley y a Freud, deshaciéndonos en sonrisas. Después descubrimos que no era posible conciliar las teorías...
Cuando yo era pequeño mis padres me llevaron a la ciudad de México. Siempre recordaré el comportamiento de mi padre, vulgar y fatuo. A mi madre no le gustaba tampoco aquella gente porque eran morenos...
Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in the midst of starting to grow up, grow old, and sense darkness wa...
Death makes everything else sad. But death itself only scares. If there wasn't death, all the other things wouldn't get tainted.
Death was his little sister one morning when he awoke at the age of seven, looked into her crib, and saw her staring up at him with a blind, blue, fixed and frozen stare until the men came with a smal...
Deep, deep down in the deepest Deeps. Isn't that a word now, Johnny, a real word, it says so much: the Deeps. There's all the coldness and darkness and deepness in the world in a word like that.
Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline!
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?He laughed. That's against the law!Oh. Of course.
Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?''The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too...
Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?
Don’t ask for everything on your platter, she said. Be satisfied with a wrinkled pea, for there’s another world we’re all going to that’s better than this one. I know that world, he said. It’s peacefu...
Don’t ever be a Rocket Man. I stopped. I mean it, he said. Because when you’re out there you want to be here, and when you’re here you want to be out there. Don’t start that.
Don’t see so much, Chris, your mind is too big for your body.’ I got a war on between a mind that wants things my body can’t give it.
Dopuštím se malé ironie. A není slušné někoho přerušovat, zrovna když se dopouští malé ironie. No tak!
Each of the men I have listed seized a bit of the quicksilver of life, froze it for all time and turned, in the blaze of their creativity, to point at it and cry, Isn't this good! And it was good.
Ella no quería saber cómo se hacía algo sino por qué. Esto puede resultar embarazoso.
Elle avait un visage menu, d’un blanc laiteux, et il s’en dégageait une espèce d’avidité sereine, d’inlassable curiosité pour tout ce qui l’entourait. Son expression suggérait une vague surprise ; ses...
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess...
Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.
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