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...
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed. ‘That’s against the law!’ ‘Oh. Of course.’ ‘It’s fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn ’em to ashes, then bur...
Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline!
Daca vrei ca un om sa fie fericit politiceste, nu-i infatisa doua laturi ale unei probleme, caci s-ar framanta, prezinta-i o singura latura, sau chiar nici una, e si mai bine. Lasa-l sa uite c-ar exis...
Cuando muere, todo el mundo debe dejar algo detrás, decía mi abuelo. Un hijo, unlibro, un cuadro, una casa, una pared levantada o un par de zapatos. O un jardínplantado. Algo que tu mano tocará de un...
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...
Come on, get up, get up, you can't just sit! But he was still crying and that had to be finished.
Clarisse would have ignored him if it were not for the fact that as she passed, he took something long, white and oddly familiar from his coat and proceeded to chew on it, as on a peppermint stick. It...
Ci dev'essere qualcosa di speciale nei libri, delle cose che non possiamo immaginare, per convincere una donna a restare in una casa che brucia. È evidente!
Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccha...
Chapter 31 NOTHING MUCH else happened, all the rest of that night.
Cerrando los ojos, volviendo la cabeza, escuchando. Oh que viento solitario. México es un país raro. Todo selvas y desiertos y extensiones solitarias y aquí y allí un pueblo pequeño como éste, con una...
Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. So vague, yet so immense. He did not want to live with it. Yet he knew that, during this night, unless he lived with it very well, he m...
By living well, by observing as you live, by reading well and observing as you read, you have fed Your Most Original Self.
But no man’s a hero to himself. I’ve lived with me a lifetime. Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself—
But are we strong enough? wondered Blackwood. How strong is strong? They won’t be prepared for us, at least. They haven’t the imagination. Those clean young rocket men with their antiseptic bloomers a...
Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.
Boy,' said Ralph, squinched up, balled up, feet against chest, eyes tight. 'England is no place to be a sinner.
Borracho de vida, y sin conocer el rumbo siguiente. Pero antes del amanecer uno ya está en marcha. ¿Y el viaje? Exactamente la mitad terror, la mitad júbilo.