But like a lot of people whose vocation it is to change the world he proved to be, in person, outrageously petty.
But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others.
But first a description: Clara Bowden was beautiful in all senses except maybe, by virtue of being black, the classical. Clara Bowden was magnificently tall, black as ebony and crushed sable, with hai...
But equally you can’t fight for a freedom you’ve forgotten how to identify.
Brute force outraged her, I think, because it was outside her beloved realm of language, and in response to it she really had nothing to say.
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.
And it goes to prove what has been said of immigrants many times before now; they are resourceful; they make do. They use what they can when they can.Because we often imagine that immigrants are const...
Ahhh, now, you see, we’ve been through this, and my thought is this: there’s no smoke without fire, Archie would say, looking impressed by the wisdom of his own conclusion. Know what I mean? This was...
Actually creating an animal just so it can die -- it's like being God! I mean personally I'm a Hindu, yeah? I'm not religious or nothing, but you know, I believe in the sanctity of life, yeah? And the...
A truth was being revealed to me: that I had always tried to attach myself to the light of other people, that I had never had any light of my own. I experienced myself as a kind of shadow. When
A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.
13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands.13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime...
The wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
Don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voy...
- I couldn't help but notice the placidity of a small female household. In Tracey's home, disappointment in the man was ancient history: they never really had any hope in him, for he had almost never...
Oh, he loves her; just as the English loved India and Africa and Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly)
This light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave...
The object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity.
Software is not neutral. Different software embeds different philosophies, and these philosophies, as they become ubiquitous, become invisible.
Mainly that it was important to treat oneself as a kind of stranger, to remain unattached and unprejudiced in your own case.