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But perhaps the most overlooked feature of her life was that she was human, and therefore fallible.

This kind of detail impressed me. It suggested a whole life of marvelous, elaborate decadence that attracted me like a magnet.

Write about the cow, Mrs. Spaulding's heavy eyelids, the smell of vanilla flavoring in a brown bottle. That's where the magic mountains begin.

A heavy naughtiness pricked through my veins, irritating and attractive as the hurt of a loose tooth.

Inertia oozed like molasses through Elaine's limbs.

Doctor Gordon reached for the hand that hung at my right side and shook it.

But then, she was practical and a sociology major.

The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a foetus in a bottle.

Fashion blurbs, silver and full of nothing, sent up their fishy bubbles in my brain. They surfaced with a hollow pop.

What's the matter with me?' 'Poisoned,' she said briefly. 'Poisoned, the whole lot of you. I never seen anythin' like it. Sick here, sick there, whatever have you young ladies been stuffin' yourselves with?

Do you know what a poem is, Esther?" "No, what?" I said. "A piece of dust.

his ego is like an unbroken puppy: scampering about spurting effusively over everything, especially if Everything is admiring.

Another day of hell. He is on the prowl, all the fiends are come to torment me: and I alone am escaped to tell thee.

Hamish said: He is the biggest seducer in Cambridge.

the ugliness which by man's sense of wishful thinking becomes a beauty touching us all

But you will never take a walk. You will never be alone. And you hate him because he has deprived you of that: - - walks and aloneness. And you hate him because he is a boy.

My enemies are those who care about me most.

smiling that smile which puts a benevolent lacquer on the shuddering fear of strangers' gazes

and with a tolerant smile that was a superior lie, I walked on.

Estos cuatro cuadrantes son el mundo físico, el mundo mental, el mundo emocional y el mundo espiritual.

Not drunk is he who from the floor Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is he who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise-T.L. Peacock

We could easily have been abject strangers with no history of brief unsatisfying cinematic sex between us.

The man dabbed briefly at his lip with his bloody sleeve end and then cocked back his head and laughed. The sound was sharp and joyless and desperate.

special preference to "an automobile manufacturer incorporated in Delaware on October 13, 1916." That would be General Motors, although the name of the firm does not appear.