Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.
Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.
By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.
In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.
Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.