Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn’t liberate everyone, does it?
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
Mr. Purty has cheered me up. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for...
I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read. Around
Rub wiped his nose on his sleeve. I just wisht— What? Rub sighed. Where to begin? That I’d be nicer to you? He shrugged again, but this was the gist of it, Sully could tell. I wish I would, too, he sa...
It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.
She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched.
She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time.
Old textile mill, which was in the process of being
The truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own. Only...
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
Yes. He loves us all. No! Tunic emphatically disagreed. God does not. Well, fuck him, then, Raymer thought, giddy with heat and blasphemy. Shame on God. Because a shirker is a coward. No, God is.
Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is importa...
My mother had more than once remarked that my father was one of the war's casualties, that the Sam Hall who came back wasn't the one who left, the one she'd fallen in love with. I didn't doubt that sh...
By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference.
Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.
He’d meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He’d also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again.
[My] explanation makes such immediate sense that I can give it up only reluctantly, a necessary concession to my physician's expertise. This is the way my students feel, I realize, when I suggest styl...
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