Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone?
I rarely watch the 'parlour walls' or go to races or Fun Parks. So I've lots of time for crazy thoughts.
Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it's finally me, where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times ten thousand a day.
If only they could have taken her mind along to the drycleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only. . .
For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are.
She was the first person in a good many years I've really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted.
And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense.
You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
Have you ever smelled old leaves? Don't they smell like cinnamon?
Was it only an hour ago, Clarisse McClellan in the street, and him coming in, and the dark room and his foot kicking the little crystal bottle? Only an hour, but the world had melted down and sprung up in a new and colorless form.
She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it has to
tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses but moving also toward a new sun.
Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it.
How many times can a man go down and still be alive?
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