To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so they... don't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether changes in the sibling relationship during adolescence create long-term rifts that spill over into adulthood depends upon ...the ability of brothers and sisters to constantly redefine their connection. Siblings either learn to accept one another as independent individuals with their own sets of values and behaviors or cling to the shadow of the brother and sister they once knew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The impressionists made common cause with the realists against the artificialities of academic classicism and against all emotiona...l and anecdotal romanticism. But behind this common front their artistic aims remained divergent. The world of impressionism consists of light and reflected or refracted colors. These colors are juxtaposed or contrasted directly, with none of the dark shadows used by the realists. Shadows are broken into spots and flecks of reflected color, which seem to spill over from the objects into every surrounding shade or neutral area.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these autho...rs. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid, than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods... over every society, and they unconsciously seek for it in each other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »