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81 " It seemed to me that there were an awful lot of things she had loved about this man with whom she was not in love. "
― Michael Chabon , Moonglow
82 " I gave out the pews and reredos and so forth. The beautiful oak pulpit, which a professor-doctor from Tübingen dated to the thirteenth century. I told them to take the crucifix, too. It was quite large. Used prudently, it might have heated a dozen homes for a night or two. But there they drew the line. They were shocked, I think. I tried to explain that if He would give His life to save their souls, He would not mind parting with His image to warm their bones.” He shook his head, looking at the ruin of his church. “Of course, in the end it went to waste. "
83 " Коли він розплющив очі, то зрозумів, що потопає в очах бабусі. Вони були кольору сутінків у Монте-Карло, коли зорі палають, як десятиватні лампочки, а четвертинка місця розливає сяйво небом. "
84 " М’ясний салат був фірмовою дідовою стравою. Пропустити залишки вчорашнього смаженого м’яса через м’ясорубку разом із маринованими огірками, додати дві столові ложки майонезу, сіль і перець. Як багато фірмових страв мого діда, м’ясний салат смакував краще, ніж мав вигляд, особливо намазаний на свіжу халу. "
85 " З іншого боку, існує й таке поважне переконання: якщо ворог вступає в твоє рідне місто, руйнуючи все на своєму шляху, то треба будь-якими методами протистояти загарбникові. "
86 " У ясну ніч у сільській місцевості, де все огортає темрява, у часи між бомбардуванням, трасівними снарядами і тоді, коли вимикались зенітні прожектори, зорі вкривали небо, немов морозяний візерунок – вікна. "
87 " It was like using a rake to whip egg whites, a dagger to pick your teeth. It could be done, but to do so was a perversion. Furthermore, ineffective. "
88 " Мені здавалось, що таємниця – це злоякісна пухлина, а зізнання – це променевий ніж, радіація, яка хоч і припікає, але лікує. "
89 " - Навіщо чіпляти на капелюх мертву пташку? - Ну ти ж ходиш цілими днями з мертвою коровою на ногах. "
90 " Я це до того, що, узагалі-то, зовнішність – це не найгірше, що в собі можна любити, - зауважив я. "
91 " the way a drop of blue paint intensified whiteness. "
92 " I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the clichés and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the clichés and conventions of the young. "
93 " I don’t know if I went quite that far in my thinking.” “But now?” “Now I don’t think about it.” “Yeah, I know.” “You don’t approve. You think I should just keep dredging it all up all the time.” “Not all the time. Just, like, every ten years or so. "
94 " It turned out that the V-2 was not a means to liberate the human spirit from the chains of gravity; it was only a pretext for further enchainment. "
95 " Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention. "
96 " But what if he’s lost?” my grandmother said for the thousandth or millionth time. “He isn’t lost,” Uncle Ray said, issuing the finding that ultimately prevailed in the family Talmud. “He knows where he is. "
97 " When she first saw him, standing at the threshold of the reception room, contemplating departure before he had even arrived, she thought he had an American face, an American body. Buick shoulders, bulldozer jaw. Only if you considered his eyes would you be forced to conclude, and she did conclude, that he was beautiful. "
98 " my grandfather had no regard for anyone who could be scandalized by a shirt. "
99 " Maybe God doesn’t want this tower,” my grandmother theorized. She was standing in the middle of the living room, holding my grandfather’s coat and briefcase and the crumpled mess of his newspaper. “Because from the top of it, people they can look inside of His house and see He is a big pork. "
100 " From the time he’d moved to Florida in the mid-Seventies, the available women of Fontana Village had been giving my grandfather their best shot. "