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.
Intentioned myth.
Niceness is an overrated quality. Being nice is how a man pays his way into a party if he hasn't the guts to be tough or the class to be brilliant.
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...
Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.
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...
— Шибуми, сър? — Николай познаваше думата, но само когато се използваше за градини и архитектура, където означаваше ненатрапчива красота. — В какъв смисъл използвате понятието, сър?— О, неясно. И пред...
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...
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.
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...
Basso ostinado
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...
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...
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)
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...
You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year o...
The effect of this was to make me abjure hackneyed expressions from an early age, so I suppose I benefited from my mother’s phrasal insouciance in the long run, although it’s possible that my automati...