Quotes of: Freshman-year Keyword

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

She's thirty-four years old. In fifty, sixty years, she'll be dead, and everything reminds her of this fact but him. With Arnie, she imagines she might live forever.

The Heaven of Animals: Stories

From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.

J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965

You know, sex at seventy-six is getting very dangerous for my health ... since I live at seventy-nine!

Kensington Gore's Diary: Another Year Closer To Death

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

On The Road Again: Thirty Years on the Traveller's Trail to India

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

My Miscellanies

You are what you read.

Not in a Tuscan Villa: During a Year in Italy, a New Jersey Couple Discovers the True Dolce Vita When They Trade Rose-colored Glasses for 3Ds

A year ago he had been in America. Two years ago he had been straight. Tonight he was underground, with the remains of the bogey man, lit by the torches of the children who had killed him.

Necessary Errors

I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

The Next Queen of Heaven

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

New Year's Thieve

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.

Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row

Life may dawdle along in minutes but don't be deceived, for it will sprint by in years before you even notice.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.

Twenty Years After

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

Twenty Years at Hull House

I gather we're old friends." "By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

The Poisoned Crown