It was the season of sex, yes, but it was also, in all the vital ways, without sex itself—and isn’t that one useful definition of a happy girlhood? I didn’t know or appreciate this aspect of my luck u...
It wasn’t any one writer or article he was worried about, but the font. The meaning embedded, at a preconscious level, by the look of the magazine; the seal, as he described it, that the typography an...
It's just the problem with those things, and what i've learnt is this: they're meant to be a shortcut to the ultimate... thing, the plane, or whatever you want to say it like, yeah? It's meant to be:...
It’s claimed that Americans viewed twelve times as many Web pages about Miley Cyrus as about the gas attack in Syria.
It’s so weird watching rappers becoming elder statesmen. I’m out for presidents to represent me. Well, now they do—and not only on dollar bills. Heavy responsibility lands on the shoulders of these un...
Liberal? Hosh-kosh nonsense!’ No one was more liberal than anyone else anywhere anyway. It was only that here, in Willesden, there was just not enough of any one thing to gang up against any other thi...
Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all baggage here on the roadside and walk into the blackness.
Maybe you could say she was overly precise sometimes, not especially creative, or lacking in soul.
People are not poor because they’ve made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they’re poor.
There are two different kinds of glee club in this world. The first sing barbershop favourites and Gershwin tunes, they swing gently, moving from side to side and sometimes clicking their fingers and...
What I have realized, is that the generations,' Samad continued as they sped through miles and miles of unchanging flatlands, 'they speak to each other, Jones. It's not a line, Life is not a line -- t...
Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does mean,' said Samad tersely, 'that it is a good idea.
For any daughter of hers was to do more than just survive—as my mother had—she was to thrive, learning many unnecessary skills, like tap dancing.
Has never been hard for me to pay my taxes because I understand it to be the repaying of a large, in fact, an almost incalculable, debt.
Then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing, for the more money a person had, then the more goodness—or potential for goodness—a person pos...
The wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
A peculiar idea. Once you’re alive in this world, you’re responsible. For
Ahol én nélkülözést, igazságtalanságot, szegénységet láttam, ott Granger egyszerűséget, az anyagiasság hiányát, a közösségi élet szépségét vette észre - ami gyökeres ellentéte volt az amerikai létform...
Archie's marriage felt like buying a pair of shoes, taking them home, and finding they don't fit.
As a fact it was, in my mind, at one and the same time absolutely true and obviously untrue, and perhaps only children are able to accommodate double-faced facts like these.
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