Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.
Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
Novelists never have to footnote.
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.