Loonely in me loneness. For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never s...ee. Nor know. Nor miss me. And it's old and old and it's sad and old it's sad and weary I go back to you, my cold father, my cold mad father, my cold mad feary father, till the near sight of the mere size of him, the moyles and moyles of it, moananonaning, makes me seasilt saltsick, and I rush, my only, into your arms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Dear Captain Smith,' the ghost replied, 'you've used me ungenteelly. The crowner's quest goes hard with me because I've acte...d frailly, And Parson Biggs won't bury me, though I am dead Miss Bailey.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can put a Miss America in a room with a group of other attractive women and you'll find you will know exactly who she is. It's... almost like a magnet. There is an inner beauty, an inner glow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Miss America contest is ... the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for...: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss Wales: But just let one objectionable one get in here ... Phil Green: Now just a minute. What do you mean by "objectiona...ble?" Miss Wales: Loud and too much rouge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell [the next Miss America] she is taking on a great responsibility. A responsibility to herself, to her people, to the Miss Amer...ican Pageant, the people of Atlantic City, her state and her nation. Tell her the country and the world will judge America by her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Miss U.S.A. is in the same graveyard that [Amanda Jones] the twelve-year-old is. Where the sixteen-year-old is. All the past selve...s. There comes a time when you have to bury those selves because you've grown into another one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship--only backward. You try to start again but get i...nto blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »