Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.
According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.
There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.
Then the vulture swooped down and away, racing the LeTort spring to the Conodoguinet Creek from there to the Susquehanna river and from there to the sea. Same river my ancestors took to reach the plac...
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.
But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive.
It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...
You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...
He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes down the hall; he does not see me. Shortly I hear a horse leaving. There is much I do not know about him, but...
Think ere you speak
An American Family Sampler is a book any reader will find insightful, thoroughly researched, and fun to read. Robert Frump, author, award winning journalist, business leader
Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.
Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of her virginity, once when she is seduced of her freedom (I believe they call it marriage), and once...
...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.
But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.
Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.
If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you...
My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy, said Mr. K...
It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.
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