There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the...
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
A word is deadWhen it is said,Some say. I say it justBegins to liveThat day.
Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting...
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.
Keep this in mind: it is our religion to praise life. The word life is the king of words. The kingword surrounded by other grand words. The word adventure! The word future! And the word hope! By the...
I lost my voice, but I had words.
But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the...
speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.
Where do the words gowhen we have said them?
Beware the treachery of words... Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners and splintered stays.
{Words} cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me...
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...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.
He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze,...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?