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With a few grasping, kind words and a modern gimmick, she hoped to breathe eternity into a mortal matter, love.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
I brought up lonesomeness again, and not being understood at all except by some women everybody hated.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
It is still hard to believe that a man who sends out the Ten Commandments every year for a Christmas card can be so easy buttoning and unbuttoning.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
I sighed in and I groaned out, so as to melt a certain pain around my heart. A steel ring like arthritis, at my age.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
I thank you, Papa, for your kindness. It is true about me to this day. I am foolish but I am not a fool.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
I am ambitious, but it's a long-range thing with me. I have my confidential sights on a star, but there's half a lifetime to get to it. Meanwhile I keep my eyes open and am well dressed.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
In no time at all his cheerful face appeared at the door of the spring dusk. In the street among peaceable strangers he did a handstand. Then easy and impervious, in full control, he cartwheeled eastward into the source of night.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
My last girl was Jewish, which is often a warm kind of girl, concerned about food intake and employability. They don't like you to work too hard, I understand, until you're hooked and then, you bastard, sweat!
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
He settles in the kitchen because the children are asleep all over the rest of the house. I unknot his tie and offer him a cold sandwich. He raps my backside, paying attention to the bounce. I walk around him as though he were a Maypole, kissing as I go.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
Peter sighed. He turned the palms of his hands up as though to guess at rain. Anna knew him, theme and choreography. The sunshiny spring afternoon seeped through his fingers. He looked up at the witnessing heavens to keep what he could. He dropped his arms and let the rest go.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)
I was happy, but I am now in possession of knowledge that this is wrong. Happiness isn't so bad for a woman. She gets fatter, she gets older, she could lie down, nuzzling a regiment of men and little kids, she could just die of the pleasure. But men are different, they have to own money, or they have to be famous, or everybody on the block has too look up to them from the cellar stairs.
The Little Disturbances of Man (1959)