Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous
room, sure-a room half the kids in Sterling High would have given their right arm to enter-but it
was also a room from which there really wasn’t an escape. Either Josie was someone she didn’t
want to be, or she was someone who nobody wanted.
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- Born: May 19, 1966
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From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. ... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into...
Sherwood Anderson
Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?”
“I beg your pardon, ma’am?”
“In church. Everybody else gets to read and one never does. It’s not laid down, is it? It’s not off-limits?”
“Not that I’m aware, ma’am.”
“Good. Well in that case I’m going to start. Leviticus, here I come. Goodnight.”
The archbishop shook his head and went back to Strictly Come Dancing.
Alan Bennett
Pankaa mieleenne, hn sanoi, -min pidn tuosta lapsukaisesta. Kaikki pitvt, mutta on sellaisiakin, jotka eivt pid. Min pidn. Pidn tuosta lapsukaisesta vilpittmsti. Olen herkktunteinen ihminen, siit se johtuu. Tytyy olla herkktunteinen osatakseen antaa hnelle arvoa: vhn niin kuin runoilija. Mutta sanonpa teille totuuden. Voitte mietti pnne puhki pstksenne hnest perille ja hn antaa teille hevonpaskaa lautasella.
Truman Capote
