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Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about...

Les Misérables

Andrea worked to harden herself to the onslaught of feelings. The problem with feelings was, first you had one, which was generally bad enough. But then you had a feeling about your feeling, and then a feeling about how you were feeling about your fe...

Mermaid in Chelsea Creek

What do I miss, as a human being, if I have never heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? The answer is: Nothing. And what do I miss by not knowing Shakespeare? Unless I get my understanding from another source, I simply miss my life. Shall we tel...

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we’re grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as lo...

Paper Towns

I have always felt that suicide was connected to communication. Not due to a lack of opportunity, but to an impossibility to communicate and be understood. It can be frustrating to try to share something with somebody, something important and real to...

Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners

Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic life can be what it should be unless it is marked by the fellow-feeling, the mutual kindness, the mutual respec...

Theodore Roosevelt

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the apex of human existence, and that to work at an ordinary o...

Lev Grossman

Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. “The world just changes,” he said. “The most overwhelming feeling was the incredible i...

Christopher Ryan

The summer ended. Day by day, and taking its time, the summer ended. The noises in the street began to change, diminish, voices became fewer, the music sparse. Daily, blocks and blocks of children were spirited away. Grownups retreated from the stree...

James Baldwin

Insp. Thomas: [to his squad] He may be abroad, traveling on a false passport. What you're going to do now is to go down to the Passport Office. Get a complete list of every passport application for the last three months. Special Branch Detective: But...

The Day of the Jackal

La Santona: [Addressing a young man seated before her, apparently seeking advice on his love life] You must plant your seeds in another field. Do you understand what I mean? Young man seeking advice: No, I don't understand. La Santona: It's simple, m...

Bicycle Thieves

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

Cold Days

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

The Complete Essays

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Collected Fiction

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

Crimson Frost

One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin

I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.

The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

What I found, though, is that is you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Very often we write down a sentence then another what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

Concrete

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

Crux

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

On Certainty