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„I’ll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less — freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don’t have horns…“
„We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn’t written about.“
„You don’t know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!“
„I took that horrible novel back to the library — yes! That hideous book by that insane Mr. Lawrence. I cannot control the output of diseased minds or people who cater to them — BUT I WON’T ALLOW SUCH FILTH BROUGHT INTO MY HOUSE! No, no, no, no, no!“
„The tables have turned, yes, the tables have turned with a vengeance! You’ve come around to my old way of thinking and I to yours like two people exchanging a call on each other at the same time, and each one finding the other one gone out, the door locked against him and no one to answer the bell!“
„I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.“
„All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and of course I assumed that I would be married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man proposes — and woman accepts the proposal! — To vary that old, old saying a little bit — I married no planter! I married a man who worked for the telephone company!“
„Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.“
„I know this place. … Here it is on the chart. Look, it says here: “Continue until you come to the square of a walled town which is the end of the Camino Real and the beginning of the Camino Real. Halt there,” it says, “and turn back, Traveler, for the spring of humanity has gone dry in this place…“
„I don’t ask for your pity, but just for your understanding—not even that—no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.“
„Well, now I’ve said it, my son was looking for God. I mean for a clear image of Him. He spent that whole blazing equatorial day in the crow’s nest of the schooner watching that thing on the beach of the Encantadas till it was too dark to see it, and when he came back down the rigging, he said, Well, now I’ve seen Him!—and he meant God…“
„Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it … Success is shy — it won’t come out while you’re watching.“
„Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.“
„Things have a way of turning out so badly.“
„Eternity!—Didn’t it give you the cold shivers?“
„And the sand all alive, all alive, as the hatched sea-turtles made their dash for the sea, while the birds hovered and swooped to attack and hovered and—swooped to attack! They were diving down on the hatched sea-turtles, turning them over to expose their soft undersides, tearing the undersides open and rending and eating their flesh.“
„Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.“
„Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!“
„You’ll be surprised how infinitely merciful they are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!“
„Mother, when you’re disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus’ mother in the museum!“
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