The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene ...
The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in fact he doesn't really love that bank-account nearly as much as foreign...
Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound boo...
Father was teaching us that all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in...
But my mother is a fish. Vernon seen it. He was there.Jewel's mother is a horse, Darl said.Then mine can be a fish, can't it, Darl? I said.Jewel is my brother.Then mine will have to be a horse, too, I...
The past is never dead-it is not even past.
Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
You are not thinking of finitude you are contemplating an apotheosis in which a temporary state of mind will become symmetrical above the flesh and aware both of itself and of the flesh it will not qu...
Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
She was the captain of her soul
Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as it can be done. Always dream and shoot higher t...
Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's w...