... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, al...lows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else--e...specially somebody who's crazy about that child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that t...here's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We like the idea of childhood but are not always crazy about the kids we know. We like it, that is, when we are imagining our own ...childhoods. So part of our apparent appreciation of youth is simply envy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Walter Neff: I'm crazy about you, baby. Phyllis Dietrichson: I'm crazy about you, Walter.... Walter Neff: That perfume on your hair, what's the name of it? Phyllis Dietrichson: I don't know. I bought it in Ensenada.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When mother boasts cheerfully, "Johnny is just crazy about his new little sister. . . . You love her, don't you, dear?" Johnny has...n't much choice but to lie like a gentleman . . . and then he begins to worry that something terrible may happen to little sister. She might get eaten by a stray tiger or fall into a tub of scalding water. . . . It doesn't often occur to that grownup to wonder why tigers and tubs of scalding water are all of a sudden wandering around the house waiting for an unwary moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or adv...ising him about clothes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stupid or smart, there wasn't much choice about what was going to happen to me ... Growing up was like falling into a hole.... I m...ight not quit school, not while Mama had any say in the matter, but what difference would that make? What was I going to do in five years? Work in the textile mill? Join Mama at the diner? It all looked bleak to me. No wonder people got crazy as they grew up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You're driving along the highway licketty-split, see. You're in a hurry and you're worried about whether you're goin' to lose your... job and whether that blonde's going to be at that drug store tonight like she said she would an' about whether there's enough oil an' that knock in the motor. You see modern man lives in conditions of strain, affect we students of psychology call it. You go along staring straight in front of you, crazy to get someplace and what do you see?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »