Appointment In Samarra Quotes
"The awful proximity of his heartbeats makes Luther Fliegler begin to want his wife a little, but Irma can say no when she is tired."
"God, you're crazy, she said. Oh, but I love you."
"Jews do not observe Christmas, except to make more money out of Christians, so you do not have to treat Jews any different on Christmas than on any other day of the year."
"Pretty soon there would be a whole colony of Jews in the neighborhood, and the Fliegler children and all the other nice children in the neighborhood would grow up with Jewish accents."
"But her brother Willard and his wife, they got it because Willard was carrying on the name."
"Irma wondered if it was true that Sylvia Bromberg’s sister and brother-in-law were dickering for the McAdams property next door."
"That English, he's my boy, Ed once said, and that was enough."
"For my money, Ed said, I will take that English. He's a right guy."
"She accepted his handkerchief. I’ve got to change, she said. Do you think Mother and Dad know about it?"
"It just means that the whole town knows what you did, and when Harry realizes that, he’ll do anything short of murder to get even with you."
"You learn by living with your mother and father and people that it is bad to lie in the snow for a long time, but when all the world is covered with snow and moonlight it doesn’t look as if it would do you any harm."
"Ambition’s all right, just as long as you don’t get too ambitious."
"I never was meant to be a Cadillac dealer or any other kind of dealer."
"She was all body and sensation and he had the terrible consciousness that while she felt this way, anything he chose to do to her, anything, would not be resisted."
"The days got together and formed one life, losing their separate identities."
"I think of them oftener, and I think of them less often."
"He always did when he saw Froggy for the first time on any day; Froggy, who had been a beautiful swimmer and tennis player."
"Anything that had the sound of the trap-drummer’s wood blocks in it was syncopated."
"He was dead of gangrene within six months of his visit to Gibbsville."
"She was getting to be a prom trotter, too, as much as Bryn Mawr would permit."
"They were gay again now that the war was over and their universal embarrassment at not being in the fighting army was at an end."
"It was her first. He said he wished he were going with her, or could go in time to take her around Paris."
"She knew, or hoped she knew, that the reason he did not tell his mother more about her was that he didn’t want his mother to think things."
"If a buddy, meet a buddy, looking for the Scotch."
"He took out a package of Ziras, put one in his mouth, and pretended to reach in his pocket for a match."
"She knew that her friends and not only those of her own sex were for the first time a little in awe of her."
"He had to laugh. He had to laugh, and pour himself a drink."
"No, he guessed he wouldn't. If he knew anything, there was not going to be any merger."
"Inside dope is fun to have, and he might risk a hundred or so on it."
"Driving out to the garage he could think of only one thing that wasn't especially designed to annoy him."
"Considering the way things were going today, that was a good break."
"Julian wished he knew whether the merger really was going through."
"Harry Reilly was still a four-flusher; couldn't even leave town without making it appear that he was leaving on an errand of big business."
"One nice thing about Mary's morning recital of her woes was that usually you could stop her at any point and she would not be offended."
"I have to have five thousand dollars, and I don't know where I can get it."
"He hated her more than anyone ever had hated anyone."
"You're married to a swell girl. I don't know her at all, but I know she's swell."
"Don't buck the system; you're liable to gum the works."
"Listen, if you don't tell him you want him to stop dancing with you, then I will."
"No liquor, no meat, no coffee, drink plenty of water, stay off your feet as much as possible."
"I am now, he said, drunk. Drunk. Dronk. Drongk."
"Anybody in this house? Nope. Nobody in this house."
"It sounded like a Ford, starting in front of the English home."
"It's like playing golf with cheap clubs, or playing tennis with a dollar racket, or bad food. It's like anything cheap."
"I think, if you don't mind, I think we shall play a little tune, he said aloud."
"It's a poison. I'll say it's a poison, but he didn't take it. It comes out of the motor."
"I didn't have time to talk much. I was hurrying to catch the train to New York."