A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing their medieval look.
From John Updike
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
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