Quotes About Contrast

There weren't so many transvestite prostitutes in Oaxaca in those days; Flor really stood out, and not only because she was tall. She was almost beautiful; what was beautiful about her truly wasn't affected by the softest-looking trace of a mustache on her upper lip, though Lupe noticed it.

But Vienna was in its death phase; it lay still and let me look at it, and think about it, and look again. In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still.

Murder, more murders, still more murders! The Germans take murder more seriously than we do—I mean, as literature," Uncle Johan explained

Jack wouldn't have wanted to be buried there. If you were lying in that graveyard, facing south, you would be looking at an ugly seventeen-story high-rise for the rest of your death.

Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad…

Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!

What is this world's delight, Lightening that mocks the night, Brief as even as bright

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more Beautiful than Beauty's self.

Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine

A clammy dew is beading on my brow, At mere remembering her pale laugh, and curse. "Ha! ha! Sir Dainty! there must be a nurse Made of rose leaves and thistledown, express, To cradle thee my sweet, and lull thee: yes, I am too flinty-hard for thy nice touch: My tenderest squeeze is but a giant's clutch.

But, for the general award of love, The little sweet doth kill much bitterness;

Oh, my God! Ignatius mumbled, looking at the austere little calling card. You can't really be named Dorian Greene. Yes, isn't that wild? Dorian asked languidly. If I told you my real name, you'd never speak to me again. It's so common I could die just thinking of it. I was born on a wheat farm in Nebraska. You can take it from there.

Miró agradecido la nuca de Myrna, la cola de caballo que golpeaba inocente sus rodillas. Gratamente. Qué irónico, pensó Ignatius. Y, tomando la cola de caballo con una de sus manazas, la apretó cálidamente contra su húmedo bigote.

In the world of minor lunacy, the behavior of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

Men hide to make love but practice violence in daylight

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

enormous gap existed in the United States between the best medical practice and the average, and an unbridgeable chasm separated the best from the worst.

and in contrast to earlier stage of epidemic disease now affects many schoolchildren;

He flings pros into the air like skeet, and one by one he shatters them with cons.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.