#Americans #XXCentury
Every night was about the same. I’d drive along the coast looking for a place to have dinner. I wanted an expensive place that wasn’t too crowded. I developed a nose for those places. I...
when God created love he didn’t he… when God created dogs He didn’t h… when God created plants that was a… when God created hate we had a sta… when God created me He created me
this one always arrives at the wrong time a basically good sort I suppose an honest man
a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead
The first three or four days at Mears-Starbuck were identical. In fact, similarity was a very dependable thing at Mears-Starbuck. The caste system was an accepted fact. There wasn’t a s...
Lydia phoned me in the morning. “Whenever you get drunk,” she said, “I’m going out dancing. I went to the Red Umbrella last night and I asked men to dance with me. A woman has a right t...
the blue pencil of the wave shots of yellow road a steering wheel an insane woman sitting next to you
he hooked to the body hard took it well and loved to fight had seven in a row and a small fle… over one eye,
self-congratulatory nonsense as th… famous gather to applaud their see… greatness you wonder where
here I’ll be 55 in a week. what will I write about
the Mexican dancer shook her fans… me and her ass at me, I didn’t ask her to and my woman got mad and ran out of th… it began raining and you could hea…
I went upstairs to 409, had a stiff scotch and water, took some money out of the top drawer, went down the steps, got in my car and drove to the racetrack. I got there in time for the f...
Long walks at night— that’s what good for the soul: peeking into windows watching tired housewives trying to fight off
hey, said my friend, I want you to… Hangdog Harry, he reminds me of y… and I said, all right, and we went… this cheap hotel. old men sitting around watching
the higher you climb the greater the pressure. those who manage to endure learn