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Now, listen… Lots of boys get more out of school than that. [Sally] But that’s all I get out of it. See? … I’m in bad shape. I’m in lousy shape [Holden]

I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.

received,

Un proyecto que promete innumerables delicias nunca puede tener éxito, y la decepción general sólo se salva gracias a algún detalle molesto.

and

when all things go wrong to us, we must believe that God is doing the very best.

What we prayed for was emptiness, so we would be worthy to be filled: with grace, with love, with self-denial, semen and babies. Oh God, King of the universe, thank you for not creating me a man. Oh God, obliterate me. Make me fruitful. Mortify my flesh, that I may be multiplied. Let me be fulfilled... Some

The sun goes and the egg fades. I

Then all of a sudden, something very spooky started happening. Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street. I thought I'd just go down, down, and nobody'd ever see me again. Boy, did it scare me. You can't imagine.

Era una de aquellas sonrisas excepcionales que poseían la cualidad de ser eternamente reconfortantes por sí mismas, de las que uno se encuentra sólo cuatro o cinco veces en la vida.

I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.

Perdoaria mais facilmente sua vaidade, se ele não tivesse ofendido a minha.

It is a truth universally acknowledge

The Commander puts his hand to his head. What have I been saying, and to whom, and which one of his enemies has found out? Possibly he will be a security risk, now. I am above him, looking down; he is shrinking. There have already been purges among them, there will be more. Serena Joy goes white. "Bitch," she says. "After all he did for you." Cora and Rita press through from the kitchen. Cora has begun to cry. I was her hope, I've failed her. Now she will always be childless. The van waits in the driveway, its double doors stand open. The two of them, one on either side now, take me by the elbows to help me in. Whether this is my end or a new beginning I have no way of knowing: I have given myself over into the hands of strangers, because it can't be helped. And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.

Only some, mind you, she said coyly, raising her index finger, waggling it at us. But they were Godless, and that can make all the difference, don't you agree? I

People can tell you to shut up, but they can’t keep you from having an opinion.

I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life.

Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle, but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.

It always seemed so ridiculous that want to be around someone because they're pretty.Is like basing your breakfast cereal on color instead of taste.