I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.
John UpdikeHaving children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
John UpdikeThe fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.
John UpdikeTags: life children parenthood
Трудность общения с остряками cостоит в том, что они смешивают то, во что верят, с тем, во что не верят лишь бы скорее произвести желанный эффект.
John UpdikeМечтите се сбъдват; без тази възможност природата не би ни позволила да ги притежаваме.john
John UpdikeIf she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
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You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind.
John UpdikeBut cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.
John UpdikeСлавата - това е маска, която разяжда лицето.
John UpdikeThe clangor of the body shop comes up softly. It's noise comforts him, tells him he is hidden and safe, that while he hides men are busy nailing the world down, and toward the disembodied sounds his heart makes in darkness a motion of love.
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