To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.