Quotes - Page 296 | Just Great DataBase

You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old. They don't like to hear it.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial – I believe we are lost.

In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all. And the same thing happens in sailing: make your sheet fast, never slacken,--and over you go

Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game all right – I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it?

Si la chica es guapa, ¿a quién le importa que llegue tarde? Cuando aparece se le olvida a uno en seguida.

But my parents, especially my mother, she has ears like a goddam bloodhound. So I took it very, very easy when I went past their door. I even held my breath, for God's sake. You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

An Aesthetic Saint

Things, the word she used when whatever it stood for was too distasteful or filthy or horrible to pass her lips. A successful life for her was one that avoided things, excluded things. Such things do not happen to nice women.

New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.

The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it’s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.

Все эти смазливые ублюдки одинаковы. Причешутся, прилижутся — и бросают тебя одного.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy," he said aloud.

Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette.

We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered.

Многие, очень многие люди пережили ту же растерянность в вопросах нравственных, душевных, какую ты переживаешь сейчас. К счастью, некоторые из них записали свои переживани. От них ты многому научишься — если, конечно, захочешь. Так же, как другие когда-нибудь научатся от тебя, если у тебя будет, что им сказать. Взаимная помощь — это прекрасно. И она не только в знаниях. Она в поэзии. Она в истории.

You ask for the impossible. You ask for the ruddy impossible. So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better lover her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and continuity.

Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives. I think about pearls. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

You seem it's the silence that makes me so nervous during the evenings and nights.