Diamond, the only trouble with you is you'd like to be me. You'd like to have my organization, my influence, my fix. You can't; th...at's impossible. You think it's money; it's not. It's personality. You haven't got it, Lieutenant. You're a cop. Slow. Steady. Intelligent. With a bad temper, and a gun under your arm. And with a big yen for a girl he can't have. First is first, and second is nobody.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I have to do is hear his name... and every hair on my body just bristles with desire. When I see the moon of his face, this frame of mine oozes sweat like a moonstone. When that man as dear to me as breath steps close enough to me to stroke my neck, the thought of jealousy is shattered in my heart that's hard as diamond sometimes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At first, our bodies were as one.... Then you were unloving, but I still played the wretched favorite. Now you're the master and we're the wife. What's next? This is the fruit I reap from my diamond-hard life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage... That shaped you and is passed on from age to age Down to your entity. Remain mysterious; Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival c...an ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When y...ou're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until w...e can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work, ...if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought,... And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I'm sure you've often wished there was an after-life." Of course I had, I told him. Everybody has that wish at times. But that ha...d no more importance than wishing to be rich, or to swim very fast, or to have a better-shaped mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »