We can live indifferently to what people say
She likes us, said Umbo. I know, I could feel it too, said Rigg. She's really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children. Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew. They were...
That, she said, is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It's like saying you shouldn't get the moon in your...
Memories streamed over her, and she sat up, images converging in her mind's eye, the sneaker wave of grief catching her in its riptide pull once again, leaving her washed ashore, bereft, with two deep...
Be gentle...Many of the people who will come to see you are injured in spirit. They need to talk about things that have hurt them, or about things that they have done. Do not sit in judgement on them,...
Whoop-de-do, said Ram.What?I'm celebrating.Was that irony or loss of mental function? asked the expendable.Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in...
Western things stop being so by repetition
Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.
Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously;...
In my experience, influence is power.
The old Soviet culture also left its former citizens oddly prepared for Wall Street in the early twenty-first century. The Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with...
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
There I realized that she is a pleasure and joy and that she is my spiritual and my life, and that the world without a sorter is not equal to an atom of ashes.
- So turn around quickly and tell me everything about yourself!...
There are many ways to dry a wet matchbox, but you can be sure there is a solution.
What you told me did not change my way of thinking and I repeat that I would love to be your lifelong partner, but I want you to think very carefully about whether that man is me or not. If your...
A little {one} can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. -Abbot Saxtus
Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him
The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.
She never puts on any weight, you'll notice that's often true of selfish women.
Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere...
No matter what doctors say, anger in human beings is often one of the enemy's traps.
Oh, boy. Now you see what you've done, Monica Lewinsky, you stupid, stupid tart, I thought. Because of you, I have to explain to my Nana, while she's in a hospital bed with an enlarged gallbladder,...
Before Volcker's speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn't fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker's speech, bonds became...
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. -George Orwell
I believe I'm very happy.
Well, Hallelujah and pass the ammunition. Company for dinner! And and eligible bachelor at that, without three wives or even one as far as I know. Anatole, the schoolteacher, is twenty=four eyars of...
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the...
Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do...
What materials do you like best?...
There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape.
{Mma Ramotswe thinking about what her father taught her…}...
The Land of Dreams, that mystical realm,where the oddest of visions appear,come wander through scenes of joyful peace, or stampeded through nightmares of fear. Dare we open those secret doors,down...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
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....
