An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised … - Dawn Powell
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised …
- Dawn Powell
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your tr… - Dawn Powell
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your tr…
Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cag… - Dawn Powell
Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cag…
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. - Dawn Powell
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without… - Dawn Powell
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without…
Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern. - Dawn Powell
Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.
I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter. - Dawn Powell
I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.
All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly. - Dawn Powell
All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of lo… - Dawn Powell
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of lo…
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