alternating personalities. When she saw him alone, or at a formal party, or with his casual inferiors, she felt a tremendous pride in his strong, attractive presence, the paternal, understanding stature of his mi
Victoriousцитує3 роки тому
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing
Ekaterina Gurinaцитує3 роки тому
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing. That is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves. When I hear a man proclaiming himself an "average, honest, open fellow," I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal—and his protestation of being average and honest and open is his way of reminding himself of his misprision.
Дина Кравченкоцитує3 роки тому
she saw in Anson the two extremes which the emotionally shiftless woman seeks, an abandon to indulgence alternating with a protective strength
Дина Кравченкоцитує3 роки тому
Most of our lives end as a compromise—it was as a compromise that his life began.
Дина Кравченкоцитує3 роки тому
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing. That is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.
Влада Петровацитує4 роки тому
the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools.
JLambrekhtцитує4 роки тому
Confused by his mixture of solidity and self-indulgence, of sentiment and cynicism—incongruities which her gentle mind was unable to resolve—Paula grew to think of him as two alternating personalities.