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Date created: April 2010
Birthdate September 24, 1896
Zodiac Libra
Location St. Paul, Minnesota
Country
Etnhnicity
Job others,
What are you going to do?
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.
I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.
A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement:
I'm thirty,
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.
Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
Will father be there?
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
That's the whole burden of this novel
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Character is plot, plot is character.
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?
...As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand. So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.
Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
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