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Stories are for joining the past to the future.

Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.

What he was doing, he was giving her a feel under the table, and at the same time telling her about some guy in his dorm that had eaten a whole bottle of aspirin and nearly committed suicide. His date kept saying to him, "How horrible...Don't, darling. Please, don't. Not here." Imagine giving somebody a feel and telling them about a guy committing suicide at the same time! They killed me.

I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness.

This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.

leave the place. From the day Mr Radley took Arthur home, people said the house died. But

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity by this clause of Catch-22 and let a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed.'It's the best there is,' agreed Doc Daneeka.

So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat.

Or to be naked with her friend in bed An hour or more, not meaning any harm?

What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards? And what shall come out of us?

There should be a law, I thought. If you support a war, if you think it's worth the price, that's fine, but you have to put your own precious fluids on the line. You have to head for the front and hook up with an infantry unit and help spill the blood.

All that time, blowing away in the summer breeze. It was daisies for love though, and we did that too

Me gusta mucho tomar el pelo a una chica cuando se presenta la oportunidad, pero es una cosa curiosa. A las que más me gustan, nunca me apetece mucho tomarles el pelo. A veces me parece que a ellas les gustaría que les tomase el pelo —de hecho sé que les gustaría—, pero es difícil empezar una vez que las conoces desde hace mucho tiempo y nunca les has tomado el pelo.

Happy the age, happy the time, to which the ancients gave the name of golden, not because in that fortunate age the gold so coveted in this our iron one was gained without toil, but because they that lived in it knew not the two words "mine" and "thine"!

Avec lui, la vie était banale, sans lui, elle devenait insupportable.

Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.

She had an excellent heart — her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.

Every morning, therefore, uncle Charles repaired to his outhouse but not before he had greased and brushed scrupulously his back hair and brushed and put on his tall hat.

Twenty years. A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or, Don't be.