Nov 5, 2019
“I know he wouldn’t mind because I saw the Three Wise Men in the Christmas crib at the Redemptorist church and one of them was blacker than uncle Pa Keating...”
Angela’s ashes (263)
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“I know he wouldn’t mind because I saw the Three Wise Men in the Christmas crib at the Redemptorist church and one of them was blacker than uncle Pa Keating...”
Angela’s ashes (263)
“I did not look forward to it. I did not dread it. I did not think of it at all.”
—Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, Daughters of the Samurai (89)
“In my babyhood I heard war-songs as frequently as lullabies, and half of my childhood stories were tales of heroes on the battlefield”
— Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, Daughters of the Samurai (35)
“I remember one day when I came home from school and found the entire household wrapped in gloom”
— Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, Daughters of the Samurai (25)
And soon his little girl is fast asleep...prpobably she's too young to understand or else she's heard it all, before...in any case, she's asleep...
Palestine, JoeSacco, Page 102
I beg to differ, of course, but who am I to take issue with a person of her mettle...she's done months in prison, she's been arrested four times...
Palestine, Joe Sacco, Page 97
They listen to my story impassively...Well, maybe I didn't tell it with enough emotional oomph...
Palestine, Joe Sacco, Page 76
No, a man's character isn't his fate; a man's fate is the joke that his life plays on his character.
Philip Roth, Operation Shylock: A Confession, (Page 165)