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Love: а single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
Before and after - and during, a moment no bigger or longer than an edge.
Лорен Оливер
День за днем небытие заполняло меня; не знакомое одиночество человека, у которого нет ни друзей, ни любимой, а именно небытие, духовная робинзонада, почти осязаемая, как раковая опухоль или туберкулезная каверна.
For days after I felt myself filled with nothingness; with something more than the old physical and social loneliness—a metaphysical sense of being marooned. It was something almost tangible, like cancer or tuberculosis.
Джон Фаулз
Опять раздалось улюлюканье, крики, злобный хохот и, наконец, «ура!». Я и сама раньше так выкрикивала, не понимая смысла, в дни казней. Но теперь, когда раздался этот вопль, я, несмотря на горе, поняла, что он значит. Это все равно что сказать: «Она мертва. Она умерла — а мы живы».There came more hoots, more cries, more dreadful laughter; and finally, cheers. I think I had used to cheer myself, at other hangings. I never thought what the cheering meant. Now I listened as those hurrahs went up,...
Сара Уотерс
Bod wanted to embrace his guardian, to hold him and tell him that he would never desert him, but the action was unthinkable. He could no more hug Silas than he could hold a moonbeam, not because his guаrdian was unsubstantial, but because it would be wrong. There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.
Нил Гейман
He had no job, no address, no qualification and he refused to admit to any religious beliefs. His entire life, with its small triumphs and disasters, its boundless hopes and aspirations for the future, was condensed to a few words scrawled on a piece of grey paper the size of a visiting card. This puny dossier was no sooner completed than it was stamped with a row of figures that effectively obliterated his name and date of birth. For some reason he had been terrified at the sight of those...
Берил Бейнбридж
The best actors in this business weren't always on the screen. There was more acting in every minute of our end of the business than went on in a year before the cameras.
* * * * *В кинобизнесе лучшие актеры не всегда были на экране, каждую минуту мы порой играли больше, чем иной актер перед камерами.
Гарольд Роббинс
С другой стороны , я умудрялся понемногу писать и в годы рабства и не склонен, как некоторые, относить недостаток своей продуктивности за счет недостатка времени.
Yet on the other hand, I did manage to write, and without more than occasional repining, during my years of bondage, and I would not, as some unsatisfied writers do, blame my lack of productivity upon my lack of time.
Айрис Мердок