12 quotes found
“Self-pity is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.”
“Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.”
“People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.”
“My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.”
“The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.”
“Do you realize how angry you sound? must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.”
“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers pho...”
“Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The ...”
“My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mindlike preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.”
“The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have a...”
“Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.”
“My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.”
