This government has had much money. Much gold. They will give nothing to their friends. You are a friend. All right. You will do it for nothing and should not be rewarded. But to people representing an important firm or a country which is not friendly but must be influenced – to such people they give much. It is very interesting when you follow it closely.
Just now, I am very busy on a study of Calvo Sotelo. He was a very good fascist; a true Spanish fascist. Franco and these other people are not. I have been studying all of Sotelo’s writing and speeches. He was very intelligent and it was very intelligent that he was killed.
Do people catch a cunning dear without the dogs?
The Purple Land.
Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.
You were fighting against exactly what you were doing and being forced into doing to have any chance of winning.
Kill him, yes. Swear him, yes. But don’t wound him.
The Colonel’s Lady and Judy O’Grady are Lesbians under their skin.
Every one needs to talk to some one,” the woman said. “Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.” “We are not alone. We are all together.
Que cosan las rajas, yo entro por los ojos.
We could go into the hotel and register as Doctor and Mrs. Livingstone I presume, he thought.
Your nationalities do not show when you are dead.
The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.
The spectacle of its governing is at present more comic than tragic; but the tragedy is very close.
Don Guillermo’s house was no house, since he had not much money and was only a fascist to be a snob and to console himself that he must work for little.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.
Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship. I had been having Brett for a friend. I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.
But she has a tongue that scalds and that bites like a bull whip. With this tongue she takes the hide from any one. She is of an unbelievable barbarousness.
Yes. There is no difference.
Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her. He would have liked to have a girl but he did not want to have spend a long time getting her. He did not want to get into the intrigue and the politics. He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more lies. It wasn’t worth it. He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.