Not only did Ed love liquor. He went further. He had a deep suspicion of anyone who did not. If a nondrinker shut up and minded his own business and did not make an issue of his failing, Ed could be kind to him. But alas, a laissez-faire attitude is very uncommon in teetotalers. The […]
John Steinbeck Quotes
While he knows a little poodle English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down.
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
A red is any son-of-a-bitch who wants thirty cents an hour when we’re paying twenty-five!
I wonder… whether you believe your own accounts of children ground up under our tanks, of huts blown up and refugees machine-gunned. But perhaps you will believe anything you are instructed to believe. And so I will ask your readers who are not instructed: Why, if we are so brutal to refugees, do they always […]
It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
Baseball brings out a kind of pugnacious frustration in foreigners. Once as guest of a very old and dear friend in London, we were at Lord’s watching a sedate and important cricket match. When a player let a fast ball go by, my wife yelled, “Git it! What ya got, lead in ya pants?” A […]
The attitude of girls toward IT (A Model T Named It) was supercilious, but realistic. They would have preferred to go in something else, but mainly they wanted to go. I think they must have known that a swain’s attention was split; he might be saying with a kind of worldliness, “I think you’re pretty,” […]
