Poems List
[ Example of a short story consisting of only six words :] For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
[ Referring to kissing :] Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.
[Romance] was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure.
“I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing,” the old man said. “They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.”
“I’m going to die,” she said; then waited and said, “l hate it."
“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.” . . .
1 might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardness in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
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