Danny? You listen to me. I'm going to talk to you about it this once and never again this same way. There's some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told, but the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometims it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your mommy does and so do I. You're a good boy. Your grieve for your daddy, and when you feel you have to cry over what happened to him, you go into a closet or under your co... (查看原文)
Dying was part of living. You had to keep tuning in to that if you expected to be a whole person. And if the fact of your own death was hard to understand,at least it wasn't impossible to accept. (查看原文)
The world's a hard place, Danny.It don't care.It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either.…… That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. (查看原文)
A drink before going off to the Academy. Two or Three beers with lunch at the Stovington House. Three or four martinis before dinner. Five or six more while grading papers. The weekends were worse. The nights out with Al Shockley were worse still. (查看原文)
The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. terrible things happed in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. (查看原文)
--kill him. You have to kill him, Jacky, and her, too. Because a real artist myst suffer. Because each man kills the thing he loves. Because they'll always be conspiring against you, trying to hold you back and drag you down. Right this minute that boy of yours is in where he shouldn't be. Trespassing. That's what he's doing. He's a goddam little pup. Cane him for it, Jacky, cane him within an inch of his life. Have a drink, Jacky my boy, and we'll play the elevator game. Then I'll go with you while you give him his medicine. I know you can do it, of course you can. You must kill him. You have to kill him, Jacky, and her, too. Because a real artist myst suffer. Because each man-- (查看原文)
