Man, she looked as though she'd been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world. Yet, in spite of this, I got the impress...ion of beauty. Not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you, or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife. But a natural beauty. A beauty that's almost homely because it's so real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have met charming people, lots who would be charming if they hadn't got a complex about the British and everyone has pleasant an...d cheerful manners and I like most of the American voices. On the other hand I don't believe they have any God and their hats are frightful. On balance I prefer the Arabs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don: Why are they closed? They're all closed, every one of them. Pawnbroker: Sure they are. It's Yom Kippur.... Don: It's what? Pawnbroker: It's Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday. Don: It is? So what about Kelly's and Gallagher's? Pawnbroker: They're closed, too. We've got an agreement. They keep closed on Yom Kippur and we don't open on St. Patrick's.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 »
I had heard so much about how hard it was supposed to be that, when they were little, I thought it would be horrible when they got... married and left. But that's silly you know. . . . By the time they grow up, they change and you change. Eventually, they're not the same little kids and you're not the same mother. It's as if everything just falls into a pattern and you're ready.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like snow having second thoughts and coming back To be wary about this, to embellish that, as though life were a party... At which work got done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. ...You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through with ...its twenty-fifth revolution before reading much about it. When it is over, some one whose business it is, will be sure to give you in a digested form all that it concerns you to know, and save you trouble, confusion, and time. If you will follow this plan, you will be surprised to find how new and fresh your interest in what you read will become.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religion is an attempt to get an irrefragably safe investment, and this cannot be got, no matter how low the interest, which in th...e case of religion is about as low as it can be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the later childhood years...is not a time for you to stop bringing up correct information about sexuality....--isinformatio...n is flowing just as fast in the school yard, on the streets, through the media,, and sometimes in your kid's head. Don't be lulled into thinking that because you've explained it, the school taught it, or your child saw it on TV, he really got it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »