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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
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Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
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I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
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Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.
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The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses
