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Gratitude is my chief erotic emotion.

Stendhal had said a Frenchman was an Italian in a bad mood.

I think he had no notion how little an effect the word sin had on me. He might as well have said, Homosexuality is bad juju

I'm not sure what readers want.

There was no way to defend what I was. All I could fight for was my right to choose my exile, my destruction.

He was amused by their 'ass stories' ( histoires de cul ) told over morning coffee at noon about their exploits the night before.

Andrés was Latin enough to understand the sacred rights of the family and the inconvenience of a same-sex lover.

with which we have attempted to clothe it; I am trying — as in the book that follows — to remove the whole subject from the plane of morality and to give an objective account of the expansion of the United States.

Whitman believed himself, at the time when Drum-Taps was published, that it was so far the best thing he had written. It certainly contained the best poetry that was written during the war on the subject

classic (though one that I cannot help thinking a little overrated), and there is no point in describing her poetry here.

THE Canadian Morley Callaghan, at one time well known in the United States, is today perhaps the most unjustly neglected novelist in the English-speaking world.

Nothing but rules. Rule the first: no callers at the front door. Rule the second: no callers at the back door. Rule the third: no going out after dark. The six dusters had to be washed each evening and accounted for.

The convent was a gray stone building with hundreds of small square curtainless windows, like so many eyes spying out on the wet sinful town.

most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes

With his addition of a birth and infancy account, Matthew makes his Gospel conform more closely to the format of ancient biography.

Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief.

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a well-rounded detective was a jibe around his weight.

It was eight years since publication of The Riddle of the Sands, but people still read it. "Do you fear war too?

by John Updike; he, intent on a paperbound anthology of science fiction stories edited by Hans Stefan Santesson.

invasion titled The Riddle of the Sands. It became his most successful novel.

A modern Greek, who could write the life of a saint without adding fables and miracles, is entitled to some commendation.

HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for The