Mother used to shape and score the Spam, arrange the rings of pineapple, then pour a little maple syrup over it and bake it so that it came out looking almost exactly like a miniature glazed ham, and...
Indeed, my first interest in the pioneer work of Doctor Freud sprang, not from a concern for persons wounded in their collisions with reality, but from my personal curiosity about the nature of creati...
Diamond could not repress a sigh when he read that phrase. Miss Stern obviously suffered from the democratic delusion that all people are created interesting.
Dedikodu bizim kadınlarımıza günahın tadını çıkarma olanağı verir. Kendi işlemeyecekleri, işleyemeyecekleri günahlar. Çünkü onları cesaretsizlikleri, hayal güçlerinin eksikliği ve fırsatsızlık engelli...
Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.
She often said, and honestly believed, that she was not prejudiced—well, except in the case of Italian mobsters and drunken Irish loafers and stupid Poles and snooty Yankee Protestants, but then who w...
It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to.
All right. But take my advice, Mr. Hel. Don’t let this chance get away. Opportunity doesn’t knock twice, you know.Penetrating observation. Did you make up the epigram?I’ll see you tomorrow.Very well....
Has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have t...
But I was a polite kid, so I went. Even the wildest and toughest of us kids, several of whom ended up in prison and one on death row, would be accounted polite by today's standards.
Listen! Hannah pled. Is there someone who could drive me to the Château of Etchebar? A quick conference was held between the café owner and the mousse players. There was some argument and a considerab...
And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.
Well, ofcourse one must have concentration. Courage. Self-control. That goeswithout saying. But more important than these, one must have... Idon't know how to say it. One must be both a mathematician...
Of course these gifts were reckless extravagances for a family that was never more than a couple of dollars and a few days away from hunger, but that’s how poor people cope with being marooned in pove...
Nicholai bir yıl boyunca olup bitenin farkına varmadı. Günlük yaşamı bir sürü küçük olaylarla noktalanıp ölçülüyor, cezaevi dışındaki yaşamla da hiçbir ilgisi kalmamış bulunuyordu. Hiçbir zaman canı s...
And it was a given of the Western genre, both on the radio and in the movies (it’s interesting that one was ‘on’ the radio but ‘in’ the movies)
The Trevanian Buff is a strange and wonderful creature: an outsider, a natural elitist, not so much a cynic as an idealist mugged by reality, not just one of those who march to a different drummer, bu...
The first batch of ads just after the couple broke up, and the second just before they got together again...two moments that the sponsors considered so suspenseful that the listener wouldn’t be able t...
My job to color the margarine, putting the white, lard-like block into a bowl then sprinkling orange coloring powder over it and mixing with a fork until it was more brazenly yellow than any butter wo...
A man is happiest when there is a balance between his needs and his possessions. Now the question is: how to achieve this balance. One could seek to do this by increasing his goods to the level of his...