In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide. " In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert. " I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
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I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.
I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.
There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.
And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.
I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.
The ticket out of the Depression was an education, a college degree. It really didn't matter if you knew anything. You just had to have the degree. My dad, up until the last two years of his life, thought he had failed miserably with me 'cause I didn't go to college. I mean, you've seen postgame interviews with the star of the game and the players always talk about how proud his parents are because he's the first guy in his family ever to attend college. I'm the first in my family not to! I'm the first of my family not to have a degree. It's thrown everybody for a loop.
I thought using one device would be simpler.
Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.
Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
I've always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don't know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon. I can only say that it was caused by my natural affront to the notion of her as my sister. Since I'll be shagging her tonight, you can imagine how I'd be distressed at the thought of rogering my sibling" "You shmuck! The only thing you'll be shagging tonight is yourself!" "You wanted sincerity, well, luv, I was sincere.