Sublime

What she actually said was “You are living like someone who has died already.”

A hurricane, or a plague, or the overpopulation of the earth will seem chaotic to those whose cultural expectations are damaged by them and orderly to those whose expectations have been confirmed by them.

The fire is in this, perhaps, the finest and simplest symbol of a truth persistently misunderstood. These elementary things, the land, the roof, the family, may seem mean and miserable; and in a cynical civilization very probably will seem mean and miserable.

There’s a lesson in what happened to you, Elson. betsy baron If you ain’t white, don’t try to be white. eddie baron

“And you, I think, are a good man of the kind who does not know himself to be one—some say that is the only kind.

It was strange that a Negro could be an officer and a gentleman and an equal below Parallel Thirty-eight, but not below the Mason-Dixon line.

She thought of him as a source of knowledge rather than experience; a good, though not contemporary mind, a person rather than a man.

The destruction of the finest is natural, it confirms them.

“That look on your face. Like Bette Davis with indigestion.”