Anyway, Whacking A Surly Bartender Ain't Much

I Make My Share Of Mistakes, But One I Never Make Is To Underestimate The Power Of Things. People Imbued From Childhood With The Myth Of The Primacy Of Feeling Seldom Like To Admit They Really Want Things As Much As They Might Want Love, But My Career Has Convinced Me That Plenty Of Them Do. And Some Want Things A Lot Worse Than They Want Love.

-she Remembered Them Kindly, For There Was A Sweetness In Boys That Didn't Last Long, Once They Became Men.

The Only Bookstore I Had Was The Paperback Rack At The Drugstore.

Call Listened With Amusement--not That The Incident Hadn't Been Terrible. Being Decapitated Was A Grisly Fate, Whether You Were A Yankee Or Not. But Then, Amusing Things Happened In Battle, As They Did In The Rest Of Life. Some Of The Funniest Things He Had Ever Witnessed Had Occurred During Battles. He Had Always Found It More Satisfying To Laugh On A Battlefield Than Anywhere Else, For If You Lived To Laugh On A Battlefield, You Could Feel You Had Earned The Laugh. But If You Just Laughed In A Saloon, Or At A Social, The Laugh Didn't Reach Deep.

For The Past Several Centuries The Bonding Power Of The Family Dinner Table Has Been One Of The Few Constants, And Now It's Binding No More. The Potency Of The Media Is Now Stronger Than That Of The Family. The Wonder Is That Families Still Exist At All, Since The Forces Of Modern Life Mainly All Pull People Away From A Family Centered Way Of Life.