#Americans #XXCentury
up in northern California he stood in the pulpit and had been reading for some time he had been reading poems about nature and the goodness
On the elevator up, I was the only white man there. It seemed strange. They talked about the riots, not looking at me. “Jesus,” said a coal black guy, "it’s really something. These guys...
I saw a vacancy sign in the window in front of a rooming-house, had the cabby pull up. I paid him and walked up on the front porch, rang the bell. I had one black eye from the fight, an...
ask the sidewalk painters of Paris ask the sunlight on a sleeping dog ask the 3 pigs ask the paperboy ask the music of Donizetti
in the center of the action you have to lay down like an anima… until it charges, you have to lay down
“what?” they say, “you got a computer?” it’s like I have sold out to the enemy. I had no idea so many
the critics now have me drinking champagne and driving a BMW and also married to a socialite from
swans die in the Spring too and there it floated dead on a Sunday sideways circling in the current
It’s never quite right, he said, t… the way the music sounds, the way… written. It’s never quite right, he said, a… taught, all the loves we chase, al…
Then there were only 6 or 7 of us.… “How you doing on your scheme, Ch… “No trouble at all,” I said. “O.… “Yes, Woodburn.” “Listen, I don’t like to be bothe…
being the German kid in the 20’s i… was difficult. there was much anti-German feeling… a carry-over from World War 1. gangs of kids chased me through th…
Dee Dee had a place in the Hollywood Hills. Dee Dee shared the place with a friend, another lady executive, Bianca. Bianca took the top floor and Dee Dee the bottom. I rang the bell. It...
never even in calmer times have I ever dreamed of bicycling through that
what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would
by God, I don’t know what to do. they’re so nice to have around. they have a way of playing with the balls