Walter Van Tilburg Clark · 712 pages
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“Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, quote from The City Of Trembling Leaves
“Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, quote from The City Of Trembling Leaves
“Just being is the main thing. Anything else is extra.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, quote from The City Of Trembling Leaves
“It is possible to insult Americans?”
“They are automatically insulted and enraged,” said the young composer. “They form splenetic organizations by the hundreds, and write letters to periodicals and congressmen. They gather in mobs and pay no attention. They hang people without trial and shoot citizens down with machine guns out of passing cars. They will despise you because you do not eat the same things they eat for breakfast. They even apply indifference.”
― Walter Van Tilburg Clark, quote from The City Of Trembling Leaves
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Born place: in East Orland, Maine, The United States
Born date August 3, 1909
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“Сега лежах съвсем изоставен в тази глупава ръждивочервеникава вана, стените на банята бяха облицовани с черни плочки, но ваната, сапуниерката, кранът на душа и дъската на тоалетната чиния бяха ръждивочервени. Липсваше ми гласът на Мари. Докато мислех за нея, изпитах чувството, че тя не може да чете на Цюпфнер дори и библията, без да се чувства предателка и развратница. Тя трябваше да си спомни за хотела в Дюселдорф, където ми беше чела за Соломон и Савската царица, докато заспах преуморен във ваната. Зелените килими в хотелската стая, тъмните коси на Мари, гласът ѝ, после тя ми донесе запалена цигара и аз я целунах.
Лежах покрит до шия със сапунени пяна и мислех за Мари. Тя не можеше да върши нищо с него или при него, без да си спомня за мене. В негово присъствие не можеше да завърти дори капачето на пастата за зъби. Колко често ние двамата бяхме закусвали заедно, бедно или разкошно, набързо или спокойно, прекалено рано призори или късно сутринта, с много мармалад или без никакъв мармалад. Самата представа, че тя закусваше с Цюпфнер всяка сутрин по едно и също време, а след това той тръгваше с колата си за своята католическа канцелария, ме докара почти до молитвено настроение. Молех се никога да не се стига до закуска с Цюпфнер.”
― Heinrich Böll, quote from The Clown
“Très vite dans ma vie il a été trop tard. A dix-huit ans il était déjà trop tard. Entre dix-huit ans et vingt-cinq ans mon visage est parti dans une direction imprévue. A dix-huit ans j’ai vieilli.”
― Marguerite Duras, quote from The Lover
“Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Prince of Thorns
“Disarmed, defeated but elated,
I knew at once you were the one.
That meeting was, no doubt fated.
You are my own midnight sun.”
― Tatyana K. Varenko, quote from Ordeal
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