If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ou… - Maureen Howard
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ou…
- Maureen Howard
The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it. - Maureen Howard
The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.
I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have. - Maureen Howard
I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom… - Maureen Howard
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom…
Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls? - Maureen Howard
Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?
There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed. - Maureen Howard
There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.
Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes. - Maureen Howard
Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.
Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could … - Maureen Howard
Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could …
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need. - Maureen Howard
Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.
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