It is told that some divorcees, elated by their freedom, pause on leaving the courthouse to kiss a front pillar, or even walk to t...he Truckee to hurl their wedding rings into the river; but boys who recover the rings declare they are of the dime-store variety, and accuse the throwers of fraudulent practices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New Yorkers speak more quickly and shift topics more rapidly. We all know that. But the way it's done is fascinating. At least it ...fascinated me when I first moved to New York. Someone has the floor and talks. As soon as I know what they are going to say, I can jump in, finish the sentence to show I understand, and take off into my own turn. The northern California I know isn't like that. Someone talks, and I lie back and listen and let them roll for a while. When they're done, there'll be a pause that will flash like a green light to announce that someone else can have the floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
in the morning Should I not pause in the light to remember God?... Upright and firm I stand on a star unstable, He is immense and lonely as a cloud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too often when you thought you'd be showered with confetti What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti... You've put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock Yet you pause before your father's door afraid to knockLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As between these two, the need that in its haste to be abolished cannot pause to be stated and the need that is the absolute predi...cament of particular human identity, one does not presume to suggest a relation of worth. Yet the distinction is perhaps not idle, for it is from the failure to make it that proceeds the common rejection as "obscure" of most that is significant in modern music, painting and literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
B: Why don't you let yourself die? A: I have thought of it.... B (irritated): But you don't do it! A: I'm not unhappy enough. (Pause.) That was always my unhap, unhappy, but not unhappy enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I asked her to look at me and after a few moments--(pause)Mbut the eyes just slits, because of the glare. I bent over her to get t...hem in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low.) Let me in. (Pause.) We drifted in among the flags and such. The way they went down, sighing, before the stem!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and t...hen you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dead have been awakened--shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?... The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, Its echo in my heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »