Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, too, he was sentimental, and, like most sentimental people, he was both cruel and abused. Also, he had much bad luck, and it was not all of it his own. He had died in a trap that he had helped only a little to set, and they had all betrayed him in their various ways before he died.
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Related He would bet good money that the Wyrdstone collar was for the king's own son--and he prayed that the... SARAH J. MAAS He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart... CRAIG REID He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ... CASSANDRA CLARE And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte... J.K. ROWLING And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo... J.K. ROWLING He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ... JOSEPH ROTH He just said he was so sorry that he had that on his record. He just wanted to clear his record befo... FRANKIE HARRIS Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh... JEFF HILL He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out abo... THOMAS WOLFE I liked everything I read about Braddock, ... I liked who he was before he was a champion, who he wa... RUSSELL CROWE And not only of even mainly because of the protection it had given him - it was thanks to his own st... MICHAEL ENDE His fastball was very dominant tonight, and he had great control of all of his pitches. He threw a g... AARON MISASI She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had ... LARRY MCMURTRY And in an essential way, this was what he was most ashamed of: not his poor understanding of sex, no... HANYA YANAGIHARA I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t... ALAN J. HEEGER He was really nice. He was like, 97, when he died. He was also a good golfer. He had eye cancer for ... ANDREW KRIEG I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday... MAGIC JOHNSON The want for that kiss had shocked him more than the interruption, and he fell back into the chair, ... KIM HARRISON He was collapsing his backside a little. It's something he has had to deal with before, and he threw... RICH DUBEE My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done a... CARLOS GOMEZ His right hemisphere had died. He knew so many people who had died that in his present state of diss... IAN MCEWAN My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m... BRIAN COX They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unus... ANTHONY HOROWITZ He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: th... MICHAEL ENDE All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bu... MICHAEL CONNELLY My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li... MICHAEL HANEKE I couldn't find anyone and he was visiting on set so I asked him to go change. He was okay with it b... PETER CHAN I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. STEVEN WRIGHT I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gift... GUSTAV MAHLER His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He had the most popular diet that ever existed, ... He was not just a doctor, he was ... CATHY NONAS All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had ... JULIET MARILLIER He had the strength and the desire and the passion and all that sort of thing within his game. He al... JOHN ADSHEAD Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly lit... JONATHAN FRANZEN He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance a... JACK LONDON These people all thought they knew him. They believed he was a whore, and sometimes he thought he wa... BEVERLY L. ANDERSON When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he... JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN He said he had accomplished all that he could in those four years, and it was time for him to get ba... BOB MITCHELL When I learned that, I knew it was a sign that he was OK and happy and had died doing what he loved. IDA TINGUELY Feast of the Conversion of Paul The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood al... C. H. DODD In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it w... SPIKE MILLIGAN He had a honey hole there where he was catching some nice fish. He didn't catch a lot, but his fish ... JIMMY WALKER Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer... JOHN CONNOLLY My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life ver... DIANA QUICK He had all his pitches working and he was able to locate all of them. He was real strong early in th... GARY MCNAMARA This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complaine... EDWARD ROMERO He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious... CASSANDRA CLARE He had all these great scenes with his son before pulling the plug. It was really moving the materi... CAROLYN HINSEY He had all these great scenes with his son before pulling the plug. It was really moving the mate... CAROLYN HINSEY When he first got down there, he was 'The Golden Child.' Everyone loved him, ... He had his whole fa... JAMIE SHARPER He always had a big heart. Little kids would want him to sign their shirts, and he enjoyed doing tha... PETE GILLEN Another boy died in my arms, he had severe chest injuries. he was sitting in a Chinese restaurant, h... MICHAEL HARTLICH Bad business last night. Chances are, that would be all Graham had to say about the death of a man h... PATRICK ROTHFUSS When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew ... DENIS JOHNSON He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided... KARL MARLANTES I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back pr... JOHN MCENROE Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had ar... JAMIE FORD He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great d... NORBERT JACQUES He was coming across the lane and he had a good screen set on him. It was a clean play. It just caug... GRANT SMYTHERS Tyson was an interesting experience, just because he was a lot of fun to play, because he was the ty... JOEL RIET He had just one arm, and there were all kinds of legends that he was fighting a guy and when he coul... JACKIE BERRY Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ... ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Ernest Hemingway was in love with Africa and as with others in such a state of emotion ... he constr... NADINE GORDIMER It was 30 years too late for all of us. Poor Ed Wood died broke. He depended on his friends. It's to... CONRAD BROOKS He made it look easy. He had good command of his cutter. He was getting strike one with his fastball... CHAD MOELLER It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He came in my office one day and had this sheepish look on his face, like there was something on his... JEFF PYLE He got angry in a good way. He had just had enough and he responded in a manner that you'd expect a ... JOE MADDON All his life, he fought against bigotry, racism and discrimination. He wasn't going to come and be b... KEN LUNT He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for b... SCOTT STABILE All he cared about was that he had found his Xanadu and she was indeed heaven sent. VIRGINIA ALISON When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a l... RAY BRADBURY In the past, he had never questioned the fact that he was a prince; like the fact that he was the ch... NAHOKO UEHASHI I was frustrated that just because of his name, he was getting all this ink. All he had to do was re... BYRON KOSTE It was a heart-to-heart talk where he was feeling very badly that two of his friends had been accuse... JOSEPH TOWLE Rob was fireman all the way. He lived it, he ate it, he breathed it and unfortunately he died it, bu... JIM HODGES With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he ... SOL LUCKMAN My mother helped him with the recipes, and we all kind of worked together in his business. Tim had m... JOE MORGAN Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to ... ANNE HOLM When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all man... HOWARD BAHR There was a certain amazement that he had, and up until the day he died, he would talk about how ama... DAVID BERGER Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their slee... MARK A. COOPER He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought wa... MERVYN PEAKE He knew all he had to do was beat the guy in front of him. He went out there and wrestled his match. AARON SARRA I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was abo... CORMAC MCCARTHY Whether or not, he felt very much at home in this state. It was to places like this that they had se... DOUGLAS WOOLF The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. ... PAUL AUSTER His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he m... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw... PAUL BOWLES Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of th... JOYCE CAROL OATES When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew ... GRAHAM GREENE A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other ha... CASSANDRA CLARE Horace’s pulse was racing and adrenaline was surging into his system. But he showed no sign of it.... JOHN FLANAGAN It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blam... IAN FLEMING He was funny, but he was a good student, too. He talked about college and his plans for him and Sunn... JEFF COLE David Arroyo was at that time ... a very happy man because he had his family with him. He always tal... LUIS CORREA
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ERNEST HEMINGWAY By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure ERNEST HEMINGWAY Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both brin... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imaginatio... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ERNEST HEMINGWAY All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that dist... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ERNEST HEMINGWAY A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b... ERNEST HEMINGWAY In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Develop a built-in bullshit detector. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l... ERNEST HEMINGWAY you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. ERNEST HEMINGWAY You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself. ERNEST HEMINGWAY If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f... ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ERNEST HEMINGWAY An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never mistake motion for action. ERNEST HEMINGWAY If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go... ERNEST HEMINGWAY But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ERNEST HEMINGWAY From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All things truly wicked start from innocence. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ERNEST HEMINGWAY