War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

You remind me of everything that followed.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.