Janie full of that oldest human longing - self - revelation.
Cut! Changes happen to people. But there is a face we sometimes have that hides itself.
A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We
So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard...
I never believed Jacob was human. But sometimes, like a lot of predators, he did a decent impression of one.
The personal eludes biology in just the way that the face in the picture eludes the theory of pigments. The personal is not an addition to the biological: it emerges from it, in something like the way...
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...
'..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark, 'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater the similarity, the greater the difference,' at that...
The survival of man depends less on the perfection of the senses than might be believed. His reasoning ability has freed him from numerous efforts and obligations, so many of his faculties have been...
The law, we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch
"He thinks with his heart, Uhtred," Alfred said, "not his head. You can change a man's heart, but not his head."
Instinct is everything.
"You know women," confided the fruitseller, "they love little cats... they always love the helpless things. But when it comes to men, you know, they'll want them cruel." The youth stranger smiled...
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.
And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests - - - disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.
You get into trouble the way debutantes get into ball gowns.
Not all truths are for all ears, nor can all lies be recognized as such by any pious soul.
"Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them."
It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own - not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction - not seeking anything through the...
But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of the word 'artificial.' Nothing in the world has ever been artificial. Many customs, many...
She was the most confusing person he had ever met
"You," she said, "are the ugliest man I ever saw." Sadly, the man answered, "Perhaps so, but I can't help that." "No," the woman allowed, "but you might stay at home."
Do gooders don't interest me. They are the least interesting people on the planet.
For many thousands of years people had looked at expensive heads of hair and thought of how much food and warmth they represented, so obviously it was a thought of no use at all, so why bother to have...
If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.
No one in their right mind would attempt to salvage it, but there were plenty of people not in their right mind. The world was full of them, more produced every minute.
If a huge genetic gap separated us from our closest relative in the animal kingdom, we could justifiably celebrate our brilliance. We might be entitled to walk around thinking we're distant and...
Alas, if all humans were wise and had more good will the world would be a paradise now it is mostly a hell
Mendel hated motorists. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.
You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...