Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
His wife shuddered thinking of the terrifying tide of corpses floating in the flood. I couldn't go back to that, ... Some of them could be my family.
Books do furnish a room.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
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