At school we used the slates but I never touched a pencil and was most excited to smell the sweet pine and graphite as the Sergeant sharpened his gift he were very fatherly towards me and set me at one end of the table with a sheet of
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“If all the heavens were paper and all the water in the world were ink and all the trees were turned into pens, you could not even then record the sufferings and horrors.”
― 1945: The World We Fought For
― 1945: The World We Fought For
“Vistula”
― 1945: The World We Fought For
― 1945: The World We Fought For
“A woman who was about Jacaranda’s age approached them. She was what Jacaranda thought of as “one of those Vassar graduates who can spell from birth.”
― Sex and Rage
― Sex and Rage
“We’re not the sort of couple who lives in each other’s pockets. We live our own lives. It means we have something to say to each other when we finally get together.”
― The Heron's Cry
― The Heron's Cry
“Those women, her age and a little older, who’d all gone crazy or who were hooking in the Polo Lounge or who were married to real old movie stars and had to look old too, to match. Those occasional men of genius who, like one friend of hers, could cast the right person for the right part and never miss—never.”
― Sex and Rage
― Sex and Rage
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