Stop it you fools. Stop it I said. I'm mad, good and mad.... I'm mad and who wouldn't be. You, Dunson pretendin' you're gonna kill... him. Why it's the last thing in the world you--Stay still. I'm mad, I told you. And you Matthew Garth, gettin' your face all beat up and all bloody. You oughta see, you oughta see how silly you look, like something the cat dragged--. Stay still. What a fool I've been. Expectin' trouble for days, when anybody with half a mind would know you two love each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his n...ap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for th...is purpose.... In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things.... Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;... Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »