Lilly Dillon: You hit a person with the oranges wrapped in a towel. They get big ugly-looking bruises. But they don't really get h...urt, not if you do it right. It's for working scams against insurance companies. Bobo: And if you do it wrong? Lilly Dillon: It can louse up your insides. You can get pe, pe ... pe, pe, pe ... pe, pe, pe.... Bobo: What? Lilly Dillon: Permanent damage. Bobo: You'll never shit right again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The self-consciousness of Pine Ridge manifests itself at the village's edge in such signs as "Drive Keerful," "Don't Hit Our Young... 'uns," and "You-all Hurry Back"Mlocutions which nearly all Arkansas hill people use daily but would never dream of putting in print.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A really tight friendship is when you start to really care about the person. If he gets sick, you kind of start worrying about him...--or if he gets hit by a car. An everyday friend, you say, I know that kid, he's all right, and you don't really think much of him. But a close friend you worry about more than yourself. Well, maybe not more, but about the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immor...tal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able... to obtain the truth adequately, while on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this way it is easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth, and not the particular part we aim at shows the difficulty of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Afterwards, when the bombshell of early motherhood first hit, I remember wondering how any woman could possibly entertain erotic t...houghts while sleepwaking through the chaos of feeds, nappies stress and fatigue. I assume my husband and I must have had sex at least a few times in that two year period ... but I must say I can't remember it happening. Perhaps I dozed through it, who knows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age--what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made o...f different stuff.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why do our bodies wear out? Why can't we just go on and on and on, accumulating a potentially infinite number of Frequent Flyer mi...leage points? These are the kinds of questions that philosophers have been asking ever since they realized that being a philosopher did not involve any heavy lifting. And yet the answer is really very simple. Our bodies are mechanical devices, they break down. Some devices, such as battery-operated toys costing $39.95, break down almost instantly upon exposure to the Earth's atmosphere. Other devices, such as stereo systems owned by your next-door neighbor's 13-year-old son who likes to listen to bands with names like "Nerve Damage," at a volume capable of disintegrating limestone, will continue to function perfectly for many years, even if you hit them with an ax. But the fundamental law of physics is that sooner or later every mechanism ceases to function for one reason or another, and it is never covered under the warranty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, w...hy you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »