Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing
she saw in Anson the two extremes which the emotionally shiftless woman seeks, an abandon to indulgence alternating with a protective strength
Most of our lives end as a compromise—it was as a compromise that his life began.
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing. That is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.
the upper-class men who passed him on the street knew without being told that he was a rich boy and had gone to one of the best schools.
Confused by his mixture of solidity and self-indulgence, of sentiment and cynicism—incongruities which her gentle mind was unable to resolve—Paula grew to think of him as two alternating personalities.
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing.