Quotes about dandelions in English. A book with a taste of life ... A selection of quotes and phrases from the book by Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine

The collection includes phrases and quotes from the book "Dandelion Wine":

• I’m still thinking. We are old and weak, and I don’t even want to admit it to ourselves. We have become dangerous to society.
• That's the trouble with your generation, ”said grandfather. - I am ashamed of you, Bill, and also a journalist! You are ready to destroy everything that is good in the world. If only to spend less time, less labor, that's what you want.
• Elmira, if only you stay alive, if you don't die ... Elmira, can you hear me? Listen! From this moment on, I will enchant only for the sake of good deeds. No more black magic, just white!

• Adults and children are two different peoples, which is why they always fight among themselves. Look, they are not at all like us. Look, we are not at all like them. Different peoples - "and they will not understand each other."
• Man lives in the present, be it the young present or the old present; but he will never see or know otherwise.
• “You’ll see,” said Mrs Bentley. And I thought to myself: Lord God, children are children, and old women are old women, and there is an abyss between them. They cannot imagine how a person changes if they have not seen it with their own eyes.
• Now - up! Run around the block three times, roll five times, do exercises six times, climb two trees - and quickly from the main mourner you will become the conductor of a cheerful orchestra. Blow!
• - Dear, you cannot understand in any way that time does not stand still. You always want to remain the same as you were before, but this is impossible: after all, today you are not the same. Why do you keep those old tickets and theater programs? Then you will only be upset looking at them. Throw them out better.
• So that's it! This means that this is the fate of all people, each person for himself is the only one in the world. One alone, on his own among the great multitude of other people, and is always afraid. That's how it is now.
  
• And he understood: this is what suddenly came to him, and now it will remain with him, and will never leave him. I'm ALIVE, he thought. His fingers trembled, turning pink in the light with swift blood, like scraps of an unknown flag, previously unseen, acquired for the first time ... Whose flag is this? To whom now to swear allegiance?
• Again and again they will fly off your lips, like a smile, like an unexpected sunbeam in the darkness.
• Find friends, scatter enemies! This is the motto of light as the fluff of magic shoes. Is the world running too fast? Do you want to catch up with him? Do you want to always be nimble than everyone? Then get yourself some magical shoes! Shoes as light as down!
• Rose, ”he began,“ I have to tell you something, ”but he kept shaking and shaking her hand. - What's the matter? Aunt Rose asked. - Goodbye! - said the grandfather.
• - Lina, what do you say if I try to invent the Machine of Happiness?
• He is catching up, do not turn around, do not look, if you see him, you will be scared to death and you will no longer be able to move. Run Run! She ran across the bridge.
• “Don't laugh,” Leo Aufman said. - What have we used machines for so far? Just to make people cry. Whenever man and machine seemed to get along with each other at last, bam! Someone somewhere cheats, attaches some kind of extra screw - and now planes are throwing bombs at us and cars are thrown off the rocks into the abyss. Why shouldn't the boy ask the Happiness Machine? He's absolutely right!
• … Have you ever read Shakespeare? There are directions for the actors: "Excitement, movement and noise." This is what you are. Excitement, movement and noise. Now go home, or I'll put bumps on your head and order you to spin from side to side all night. Get out of here!
• … Do you want to see a real Happiness Machine? It was invented thousands of years ago, and it still works: not always equally well, no, but it still works. And she's here all the time.
• It seems to me, no matter how pleasant it was for us to meet in these last weeks, we still could not live like this anymore. A thousand gallons of tea and five hundred cookies is enough for one friendship.
• At first you live, you live, you walk, you do something, but you yourself don't even notice. And then suddenly you will see: aha, I live, walk or breathe there - this is really the first time.
• Lilac bush is better than orchids. And dandelions too, and thistles. And why? Yes, because they distract a person at least for a short time, take him away from people and the city, make him sweat and return him from heaven to earth. And when you are all here and no one bothers you, at least for a while you are alone with yourself and begin to think, alone, without outside help. When you're digging in the garden, it's time to get philosophical. Nobody knows about it, nobody blames you, nobody knows anything, and you become a real philosopher - a kind of Plato among peonies, Socrates, who grows hemlock for himself. The one who drags a bag of manure on his back on his lawn is akin to Atlas, who rotates on his shoulders Earth... Samuel Spaulding, Esq., Once said, "Digging the ground, dig into your soul." Turn the blades of this mower, Bill, and let the life-giving stream of the Fountain of Youth water you.
• - Something happened? - immediately asked the wife.
• How can I thank Mr. Jonas? thought Douglas. How to repay, how to repay for everything that he did for me? Nothing, well, nothing can be repaid for this. There is no price for this. How to be? How? Maybe you need to somehow repay someone else? Passing gratitude around? Look around, find a person who needs help, and do something good for him. Probably the only way you can ...
• ... Take summer in your hand, pour summer into a glass - into the smallest, of course, from which you will only take a single tart sip, bring it to your lips - and a hot summer will run through your veins instead of a fierce winter ...
• And thoughts, too, are heavy and slow, falling slowly and rarely one after another, like grains of sand in a lazy hourglass.
• “Yes,” said a voice inside, “yes, they can, if they just want to, no matter how they kick, no matter how they shout, they will just crush you with a huge hand, and you will be quiet…” I don’t want to die, ”Douglas shouted soundlessly. "All the same, you have to," said a voice inside, "if you like it or not, you will have to."
• Here, in this abyss in the middle of the black thicket, suddenly concentrated everything that he will never know and will not understand; everything that lives, nameless, in the impenetrable shade of trees, in the suffocating smell of decay ...
• It's good that he decided to live!
• Eat, drink, sleep, breathe and stop looking at me with eyes like you are seeing for the first time.
• At twenty, a woman is much more interested in being heartless and frivolous.
• John runs away, and you can hear him so loudly, as if he is marking time. Why isn't it removed? And then Douglas realized - why, it was beating his own heart! Stop! He pressed his hand to his chest. Stop! I don’t want to hear that! And then he walked along the lawn among the rest of the statues and did not know if they also came to life.
• After all, now, perhaps, for a thousand miles around, we alone are left in the open air.
• Gop la la! Tru la la! Only a fool wants to die! Whether it's dancing and singing! When the funeral bell sounds, Sing and dance, bad thoughts - get out! Let the storm howl, The earth trembles, Dance and sing, Tru la la, gop la la!
• This is who has been traveling for ninety years, ninety-five, a hundred, that very real traveler.
• You can't really sit down - you will certainly step on the cat. If you walk across the lawn, you will certainly fall into the well. All your life you've been rolling along inclined plane, Elmira Alice Brown. Why don't you honestly admit it?

• You are always trying to find out - why and why! Douglas yelled. - Because that's why it ends in "y".
• The children quarreled and shouted deafeningly at each other, but at the sight of their father they immediately fell silent, as if the appointed hour had struck and death itself entered the room.
• ... So I leave, while I am still happy and life has not bored me yet.
• He is only ten years old, and he is looking for a rabbit in every hat. I have been telling him for a long time that looking for rabbits in hats is a bad job, just like looking for at least a drop of common sense in the head of some people (I will not name who exactly), but he does not calm down.
• They don't win a war at all, Charlie. All they do is that they lose, and whoever loses last, asks for peace. I remember only eternal losses, defeat and bitterness, and only one thing was good - when it was all over. This is the end - it’s a win, you might say, Charles, but it’s nothing to do with guns. Although, of course, you didn't want to hear about such victories, did you?
• Life is loneliness. The sudden discovery hit Tom like a crushing blow, and he shivered.
• What if, deep down, you really don't want to live?
• And if you live full life- means to die sooner, so be it: I prefer to die quickly, but first to taste more of life.
• ... they don't even know what a miracle it is - to throw off the winter, throw off heavy leather shoes full of snow and rain, and from morning till night to run, run barefoot, and then lace up the first new tennis shoes this summer which is even better to run than barefoot. But the shoes must be new - that's the point.
• Every year there came a day when he woke up like this and waited for this sound, which meant that now that summer had begun in earnest.
• I will unfold the world every morning like a rubber band on a golf ball, and wrap it back in the evening. If you really ask, I'll show you how it's done.
• How nice it is to sit on the veranda on a summer evening; how easy and calm; if only this evening never ended!
• - You're right, Lina. Men are such a people - they never understand anything. Maybe we will break out of this vicious circle very soon.
• Summer rain. First, like a light touch. Then stronger, more abundantly. He knocked on the sidewalks and roofs like the keys of a huge piano.
• The next year will be even bigger, and the days will be brighter, and the nights are longer and darker, and more people will die, and more babies will be born, and I will be in the thick of it all.
• Maybe the old woman is just trying to convince herself that she also had a past? In the end, what has passed is not and never will be. Man lives today. She may have been a girl once, but now it's all the same. Childhood has passed, and it will never be returned.
• - No no! It doesn’t matter, and it’s right, which doesn’t matter. But your Machine says it's important! And I'm starting to believe her! Nothing, Leo, everything will pass, I'll just cry a little more.
• Promise me one thing, Doug. Promise that you will always remember me, promise that you will remember my face and everything. Do you promise?
• “The machine of happiness is ready,” Leo Aufman croaked.
• Yes, no one cares what adults say; it is only important that the sound of their voices sometimes grows and then freezes over the thin ferns that border the veranda on three sides; it is important that the city is gradually filled with darkness, as if black water is pouring on houses from the sky, and in this darkness lights flicker with crimson dots, and voices murmur and murmur.
• ... You can often go down into the cellar and look directly at the sun until your eyes hurt, and then he will close them and peer into the burning spots, fleeting scars from what he has seen, which will still dance inside warm eyelids, and will place every reflection in its place and every light until you remember everything, to the end ...
• Death is when, a month later, he stood near her high chair and suddenly realized that she would never sit here again, would not laugh or cry
• And now that Douglas knew, truly knew that he was alive, that he then walked the earth in order to see and feel the world, he realized one more thing: a particle of everything that he learned is needed, a particle of this special day - the day of collecting dandelions - also cork and save; and then such a winter January day will come when thick snow is falling, and no one has seen the sun for a long time, and perhaps this miracle has been forgotten, and it would be good to remember it again - then he will uncork it! After all, this summer will certainly be the summer of unexpected miracles, and we must save all of them and put them aside for ourselves, so that later, at any hour, when you want to, tiptoe into the damp twilight and reach out ...
• Junkman, he thought, Mr. Jonas, where are you now? Now I have thanked you, I have paid the debt. I also did a good deed, well, yes, I passed it on ...
  
• If you need anything, do it yourself, he thought. At night we will try to find that cherished path ...
• I knew it. People always gossip about a woman, even if she has already turned ninety-five.
• Yes, this is more true than stuffing things in the attic that you will never need again. And so even though it's winter outside, every now and then you move into summer for a minute; Well, when the bottles are empty, then the summer is over - and then there is nothing to regret, and there is no sentimental trash left around, which you stumble over for another forty years. Pure, smokeless, effective - that's what it is, dandelion wine.
• You are all alone, understand this once and for all.
• Dandelion wine. These very words are like summer on the tongue. Dandelion Wine - Caught and Bottled Summer.
• What is there to paint, - said Tom. - Briefly and clearly: they all went crazy there.
• - Right! Douglas said. - Make a Happiness Machine for us! They all laughed.
• It can mean anything. Tramps. Criminals. Darkness. Accident. And most importantly - death!
• - Volume! - And quieter: - Tom ... Do you think all people know ... know that they are ... alive? ... - It would be nice so, - whispered Douglas. - It would be good if everyone knew.

Topic of the issue: sayings, sayings, jokes, aphorisms, statuses, phrases and quotes from the book "Dandelion Wine". The story of Ray Bradbury, published in 1957, continued - "Goodbye Summer".

“- It was in February: it was snowing, and I substituted the box, - Tom giggled, - I caught one bigger snowflake and - once! - slammed it, quickly ran home and put it in the refrigerator! "

"Like a huge pupil of a gigantic eye, which has also just opened and is gazing in amazement, the whole world was staring at it."

"Dandelion Wine - Caught and Bottled Summer."

“And now that Douglas knew, really knew that he was alive, that he then walks on the earth in order to see and feel the world, he realized one more thing: one needs a particle of everything that he has learned, a particle of this special day - the day collecting dandelions - also cork and save ... "

"... this summer will certainly be the summer of unexpected miracles, and we must save all of them and put them aside for ourselves, so that later, at any hour, when you want to, tiptoe into the damp twilight and ... stretch out your hand."

"... you want to look at the two most important things - how a person lives and how nature lives? ..."

“From year to year, a person steals something from nature, and nature again takes its own, and the city never really, to the end, wins, forever it faces a silent danger; he armed himself with a mower and a hoe, huge scissors, he cuts bushes and sprinkles poisonous insects and caterpillars with poison, he stubbornly swims forward as long as civilization tells him, but every house will be overwhelmed by green waves and buried forever, and someday from the face of the earth the last man will disappear and his mowers and garden shovels, corroded by rust, will crumble to dust. "

“She was one of those women in whom you always see a broom in your hands, or a dusty rag, or a washcloth, or a ladle ... then they held them, planted seeds in the black earth, covered then apples baked in dough, then roast, then children scattered in a dream. She would pull down the curtains, put out the candles, turn the switches and ... get old. "

“- Something else I wanted ... - muttered great-grandmother, looking around. - I wanted something ... Oh, yes! - She silently walked around the whole house, without any noise and confusion climbed three flights of stairs, entered her room, lay down under the cool white sheets and began to die. "

“When you see the same show for the umpteenth time in the cinema, the best thing is to quietly get up from your chair and go straight to the exit, and you shouldn't look back, and you shouldn't regret anything. So I leave, while I am still happy and life has not bored me yet. "

"This is an hour of great accomplishments, if the opportunity comes along ..."

“- Never let anyone cover the roof if it doesn’t give him pleasure. When April comes, look around and ask, "Who wants to fix the roof?" And if someone is happy, smiles, you really need him. "

“The main thing is not the one who is lying here now, like a mummy rolling its tongue, but the one who sits on the edge of the bed and looks at me, and the one who is now preparing dinner downstairs, and the one who is busy with the car in the garage or reading book in the library. All these are particles of me, they are the most important. And I'm not dying today. No one ever dies if they have children and grandchildren. "

"... the killed sentries cannot get up from their sleep ..."

"After all, if you run, time is definitely running with you."

"- I'm alive. ... But what's the use? "

"But on endless nights, listening to the darkness, he sometimes decided that the end was near, then - that this was only the beginning ..."

“So that's it! This means that this is the fate of all people, each person for himself is the only one in the world. The one and only, by himself among the great multitude of other people, and is always afraid. That's how it is now. Well, you scream and call for help - who cares? "

"... small pleasures are much more important than large ones."

“Now the little things seem boring to you, but maybe you just don’t know their prices yet, don’t know how to find a taste in them? "

“... everyone has their own, only their own task, and everyone must solve it himself. You are all alone, understand this once and for all. "

“There are a million such towns in the world. And in everyone it is just as dark, just as lonely, everyone is just as detached from everything, each has its own horrors and secrets. The piercing, mournful sounds of a violin - this is the music of these towns without light, but with many shadows. And what an immense, exorbitant loneliness! ... Life in these towns at night turns into a chilling horror: the mind, family, children, happiness is threatened from all sides by a monster whose name is Death. "

“It's good to admire the sunset for a minute or two. And then you want something else. This is how a person is made. ... That's why we love the sunset because it happens only once a day. "

“In the end, what has passed is not and never will be. Man lives today. She may have been a girl once, but now it doesn't matter. Childhood has passed, and it will never be returned. "

“All this no longer belongs to you. It belonged to that other you, and it was so long ago. "

“Darling, you just cannot understand that time does not stand still. You always want to remain the same as you were before, but this is impossible: after all, today you are not the same. Well, why do you keep those old tickets and theater programs? Then you will only be upset looking at them. Throw them out better. "

“No matter how hard you try to remain the same, you will still be just what you are now, today. Time hypnotizes people. At nine years old, a person thinks that he has always been nine and always will be nine. At thirty, he is sure that all his life he remained on this beautiful brink of maturity. And when he is seventy, he is always and forever seventy. Man lives in the present, be it the young present or the old present; but he will never see or know otherwise. "

“Be what you are, put an end to what you were ... Take care of all the old - just try to deceive yourself. ... You take care of the cocoons, from which the butterfly has already flown out ... Old corsets, into which you will never fit. Why take care of them? It is impossible to prove that you were once young. Photo? No, they are lying. After all, you are not the same as in the photographs. "

“We need to take everything out of the chests and throw out all the trash, let the junk dealer take it. All this is no longer mine. Nothing can be saved forever. "

“They don't win a war at all. All they do is that they lose, and whoever loses last, asks for peace. I remember only eternal losses, defeat and bitterness, and only one thing was good - when it was all over. Here is the end - this is, one might say, a win ... "

“There is only one and only way to delay time a little: you have to look at everything around, and do nothing yourself! In this way, you can stretch the day for three days. It's clear: just look and don't do anything yourself. "

"Feet - in tennis shoes, which have now calmed down, as if he were shod in silence."

"And if to live life to the fullest means to die sooner, so be it: I prefer to die quickly, but first to taste more of life."

“... most young people are scared to death if they see that a woman has at least some thoughts in her head. You have probably met very smart women who have been very successful in hiding their minds from you. "

“Kindness and intelligence are the properties of old age. At twenty, a woman is much more interesting to be heartless and frivolous. "

“As soon as you cry well, it immediately seems as if it’s morning again and a new day begins. ... You will cry to your heart's content, and then everything will be fine. "

"On days like today, it seems to me ... that I will be alone."

“Some people start to grieve too early ... It seems that there is no reason, but they seem to be of the same age. They really take everything to heart, and they get tired quickly, and their tears are close, and every misfortune is remembered for a long time, so they begin to grieve from an early age. I know, I myself am. "

"Parents sometimes forget how they were children themselves"

“... you can get whatever you need, if only you really need it. "

“... what is unnecessary trash for one person, is an inaccessible luxury for another. "

“When the funeral bell sounds, sing and dance, bad thoughts - get out! Let the storm howl, the earth tremble, dance and sing, tru-la-la, gop-la-la. "

"The best thing is to get up quietly from your chair and go straight to the exit, and you shouldn't look back, and you shouldn't regret anything."

"Time is a weird thing, and life is even more amazing."

“The morning was quiet, the city, shrouded in darkness, peacefully basked in bed.

Summer came, and the wind was summer - the warm breath of the world, unhurried and lazy. One has only to get up, lean out the window, and immediately you will understand: here it begins, real freedom and life, here it is, the first morning of summer. "

“Take summer in your hand, pour summer into a glass - into the smallest, of course, from which you will only make a single tart sip; bring it to your lips - and a hot summer will run through your veins instead of a fierce winter ... "

"If you need anything, do it yourself ..."

“The main shocks and turns of life - what are they? - he thought now, pedaling his bicycle. You are born, you grow, you grow old, you die. Birth does not depend on you. But maturity, old age, death - maybe something can be done about it? "

“When a person is seventeen, he knows everything. If he is twenty-seven and he still knows everything, then he is still seventeen. "

"Do you think all people know ... know that they are ... alive?"

“- It's good all the same for the old people - they always look like they know everything in the world. But this is only a pretense and a mask, like any other pretense and any other mask. When we old people are left alone, we wink at each other and smile: they say, how do you like my mask, my pretense, my confidence? Isn't life a game? And I'm not playing badly? "

“- I would like to see Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoking a lot. Fall off a cliff, but catch a tree halfway through. I want to be shot at me three times at midnight in a dark alley somewhere in Morocco. I want to love a beautiful woman. "

“When a person is seventeen, he knows everything. If he is twenty-seven and he still knows everything, then he is still seventeen.

“The first thing you know in life is that you are a fool. The last thing you will know is that you are still the same fool. "

“So you can grow up and still not become strong? So becoming an adult is not a consolation at all? So there is no refuge in life? There is no stronghold so reliable that would stand against the impending horrors of the night? "

“There are people like that - they need to know everything: how the world works, how, how this and how it is ... thinking like this - and falls off the trapeze in the circus or suffocates, because he was impatient to understand how his throat had muscles work. "

“- Is this happiness? she asked incredulously. "What button should I press to make me happy and happy, satisfied with everything and very grateful?"

“Like a huge pupil of a gigantic eye, which also just opened and looks in amazement, the whole world was staring at it. And he understood: this is what suddenly came to him, and now it will remain with him, and will never leave him.

I'm ALIVE, he thought.

“Antelopes,” Sanderson repeated. - Gazelles ...

He bent down and picked up Douglas's abandoned winter boots, heavy with the already forgotten rains and long-melted snows, from the floor. Then he stepped back into the shadows, away from the blinding rays of the sun, and slowly, stepping softly and lightly, went back to civilization ... "

“Adults and children are two different peoples, which is why they always fight among themselves. Look, they are not at all like us. Look, we are not at all like them. Different peoples - "and they will not understand each other."

"- There are five billion trees in the world, and under each tree there is a shadow ..."

“And in adulthood, when the heartbeats are already counted in billions, when you lie in bed at night and only your anxious spirit wanders the earth, this machine will quench the anxiety, and a person will be able to peacefully doze with fallen leaves, as boys fall asleep in the fall, stretching out on a shock of fragrant dry hay and serenely merging with the retiring world ... "

“So that's it! This means that this is the fate of all people, each person for himself is the only one in the world. One and only, by himself among the great multitude of other people, and is always afraid. "

“Life is loneliness. The sudden discovery hit Tom like a crushing blow, and he trembled. "

"The great silence of dew-soaked forests and valleys, and rolling hills like a surf, where dogs, lifting their muzzles, howl at the moon, everything gathered, flocked, pulled into one point, and in the very heart of the silence were they - Mom and Tom."

“There are only two things I know for sure, Doug,” he whispered.

One is that it is terribly dark at night.

And the other one?

If Mr. Aufman ever really builds the Happiness Machine, she still won't be able to master the ravine. "

"What should it be, this Machine of Happiness? - thought Leo. - Maybe it should fit in your pocket? Or should it carry you in your pocket?"

“It won't help,” Mr. Bentley said as he sipped his tea. - No matter how hard you try to remain the same, you will still be just what you are now, today.<...>Man always lives in the present, be it the young present or the old present; but he will never see or know otherwise. "

"Photo? No, they are lying. After all, you are not the same as in the photographs. "

“How old are you, Mrs Bentley?

Seventy two.

How old were you fifty years ago?

Seventy two.

And you have never been young and have never worn ribbons and dresses like this?

Never.

What is your name?

Mrs Bentley. "

“You don't win a war at all, Charlie. All they do is that they lose, and whoever loses last, asks for peace. I remember only eternal losses, defeat and bitterness, and only one thing was good - when it was all over. This is the end - it can be said to be a win, Charles, but the guns have nothing to do with it. "

“Whatever you say, a bus is not a tram! It doesn’t make noise like that, it has no rails, no wires, it doesn’t throw sparks, and it doesn’t cover the rails with sand, and it’s not that color, and there’s no bell, and it doesn’t lower the step! ”

“- Deliver schoolchildren on buses! Charlie snorted contemptuously, striding to the side of the sidewalk. - At this point, you won't be late for school. Will come for you right to your porch. You won't be late in life now! This is creepy, Doug, just think! "

Now everything is going in reverse. Like in a movie, when the film is played backwards, people jump out of the water onto the springboard. September comes, you close the window that you opened in June, take off your tennis shoes, which you put on at the same time, and climb into the heavy shoes that you threw back then. Now people are more likely to hide in the house, like cuckoos back at the clock, when the time comes. Just now the verandas were full of people and everyone was chattering like magpies. And immediately the doors slammed shut, no conversations can be heard, only the leaves from the trees are falling.

Life is loneliness. The sudden discovery hit Tom like a crushing blow, and he shivered. Mom is also lonely. At this moment, she has nothing to hope for either the sanctity of marriage, or the protection of a loving family, or the Constitution of the United States, or the police; she has no one to turn to but her own heart, and in her heart she will find only irresistible disgust and fear. At this moment, everyone faces their own, only their own task, and everyone must solve it himself. You are all alone, understand this once and for all.

And then, let's be honest: how long can you watch the sunset? And who needs the sunset to last forever? And who needs eternal warmth? Who needs a timeless scent? After all, you get used to all this and you just stop noticing. It's good to admire the sunset for a minute, well, two. And then you want something else. That's the way a person is, Leo. How could you forget about it?
- Have I forgotten?
“That's why we love sunset because it happens only once a day.

* When a person is seventeen, he knows everything. If he is twenty-seven and he still knows everything, then he is still seventeen.

* When you are walking, there is time to look around, to notice the smallest beauty.

* It is good to listen to silence on occasion, because then you can hear the pollen of wildflowers flying in the air.

* Parents sometimes forget how they themselves were children.

* After all, you get used to everything and you just stop noticing. It's good to admire the sunset for a minute, well, two. And then you want something else. This is how a person is made.

* And suddenly the summer ended.
Douglas discovered this when one day they were walking down the street ... They stopped rooted to the spot: from the window, objects of a completely different world were looking at them with equanimity, with terrifying calmness.
- Pencils, Doug, ten thousand pencils!
- Ugh, you abyss!
- Notepads, slates, erasers, watercolors, rulers, compasses - one hundred thousand pieces!
- Don't look. Maybe it's just a mirage!
“No,” Tom moaned desperately. - This is school. The most real school!

* There are days, woven from some smells, as if the whole world can be sucked in by the nose, like air: breathe in and out ... Some days are good to taste, and others - to the touch. And there are those when you have everything at once.

* Take summer in your hand, pour summer into a glass - into the smallest, of course, from which you will only make a single tart sip; bring it to your lips - and a hot summer will run through your veins instead of a fierce winter ...

* Be what you are, put an end to what you were, - he said. - Old tickets are cheating. To keep all old things is only to try to deceive yourself.

* Just as a boy's body on a hot July day longs to be by the pond, so his legs naturally rush to the ocean of herbs cooled by oak trees, to the sea of ​​fresh clover and dew.

* In the early morning in the spring, walking is much better than driving eighty miles in the most luxurious car; do you know why? Because everything around is fragrant, everything grows and blooms. When you are walking, there is time to look around, to notice the smallest beauty.

* “That's the trouble with your generation,” said grandfather. - I am ashamed of you, Bill, and also a journalist! You are ready to destroy everything that is good in the world. If only to spend less time, less labor, that's what you want. Here you live with mine, then you will understand that small joys are much more important than large ones.

* the whole world was staring at him.
And he understood: this is what suddenly came to him, and now it will remain with him, and will never leave him.
-I'M ALIVE.

* Summer has come, and the wind was summer - the warm breath of the world, unhurried and lazy. One has only to get up, lean out the window, and immediately you will understand: here it begins, real freedom and life, here it is, the first morning of summer.

* “Now everything is going in reverse. Like in a movie, when the film is played backwards, people jump out of the water onto the springboard. September comes, you close the window that you opened in June, take off your tennis shoes, which you put on at the same time, and climb into the heavy shoes that you threw back then. Now people are more likely to hide in the house, like cuckoos back at the clock, when the time comes. Just now the verandas were full of people and everyone was chattering like magpies. And immediately the doors slammed shut, no conversations can be heard, only the leaves from the trees are falling. "

* By old age, the days somehow grow dim ... and you can no longer distinguish one from the other ...

* I will unfold the world every morning like a rubber band on a golf ball, and wrap it back in the evening.

* “GREEN DUSK FOR CLEANING NORTHERN AIR IN DREAM,” he read. - Taken from the atmosphere of the snowy Arctic in the spring of nineteen hundred and mixed with the wind that blew in the Upper Hudson Valley in April nineteen hundred and ten; contain dust particles that once shone at sunset in the meadows around Greenell, Iowa, when the coolness rose from the lake, from the stream and spring, also contained in this bottle. "

* “Some people get sad too early,” he said. - It seems that there is no reason, but they seem to be of the same kind. They really take everything to heart, and they get tired quickly, and their tears are close, and every misfortune is remembered for a long time, so they begin to grieve from an early age. I know, I myself am.

* you can get everything you need, if only you really need it

* what is unnecessary trash for one person, an inaccessible luxury for another

* What would you like to do, what to achieve in life?
- I would like to see Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoking a lot. Fall off a cliff, but catch a tree halfway through. I want to be shot at me three times at midnight in a dark alley somewhere in Morocco. I want to love a beautiful woman.
“Well, I can't help you with everything,” said Miss Loomis. - But I have traveled a lot and can tell you about different places. And, if you will, run tonight, at eleven o'clock, on the lawn in front of my house, and so be it, I will shoot you out of the musket of times Civil War if I don't go to bed yet, of course.

* Kindness and intelligence are the properties of old age. At twenty, a woman is much more interested in being heartless and frivolous.

* People always gossip about a woman, even if she has already turned ninety-five.

* - You should write books.
- My dear boy, I wrote. What else could the old maid do?

* You saw a dragon, he just ate a swan; is it possible to judge a swan by several feathers that stuck to the dragon's mouth? But only this remained - a dragon, all in folds and wrinkles, which ate the poor swan. I have not seen her for many, many years. And I don't even remember what she looked like. But I can feel it. Inside, she is still the same, still alive, not a single feather has faded. You know, on another morning, in spring or autumn, I wake up and think: now I'm going to run through the meadows into the forest and pick up strawberries! Or I'll swim in the lake, or I'll dance all night long, until dawn! And suddenly I wake up. Oh you, screw it up! Why, he won't let me out, that decrepit dragon wreck.

* - ... women who live, think and speak like you are very rare.
- Oh my God. Yes, really young women will talk like me! It will come later.

* I visited Paris, Vienna, London - and everywhere alone and alone, and then it turned out: being alone in Paris is no better than in Greentown, Illinois. It doesn't matter where - it is important that you are alone. Of course, there is plenty of time to think, polish your manners, hone your wit. But sometimes I think: I would gladly give a sharp word or an elegant curtsy for a friend who would stay with me on Saturday and Sunday for about thirty years.

* Until the age of thirty, I was a frivolous fool, all I thought was about fun, entertainment and dancing. And then the only person whom I really fell in love with, got tired of waiting for me, and he married another. And then, in spite of myself, I decided: since I didn't get married, when happiness smiled, - it serves you right, sit in girls! And she began to travel.

* - Yes, how do you think that you have lived for thirty-five years ... This turns out to be about twelve thousand seven hundred seventy-five days ... so, if you count three a day, more than twelve thousand turmoil, twelve thousand noises from nothing and twelve thousand disasters! Needless to say, your life is full and eventful.

* looking for rabbits in hats is a bad job, it's like looking for even a drop of common sense in the head of some people

* The first thing you know in life is that you are a fool. The last thing you will know is that you are still the same fool.

* No matter how hard you try to remain the same, you will still be just what you are now, today. Time hypnotizes people.

* When you live with people all the time, they do not change one iota. You are amazed at the changes that have occurred in them only if you part for a long time, for years.

* She [Happiness Machine] keeps lying, this Sadness Machine!
- Why sadness?
Lina has already calmed down a little.
- I'll tell you what your mistake is, Leo: you forgot the main thing - sooner or later everyone will have to get out of this thing and again wash the dirty dishes and make the beds.

* - You made me dance. And we haven't danced in twenty years.
- Tomorrow I'll take you to the dance!
- No no! It doesn’t matter, and it’s right that it doesn’t matter. But your Machine says it's important! And I'm starting to believe her!

* - Who lied to you, Jane?
- You.
- I AM? What is it about?
- Inwardly. That you were a girl.
“Wait,” Mrs. Bentley said. - Don't you believe me?
- I do not know. No, we don't.
- But this is just ridiculous! After all, it is clear: everyone was once young!
“Not you.
- Well, of course, I was eight, and nine, and ten years old, just like all of you.
“You're just kidding,” Jane said, still laughing. “In truth, you were never ten years old, were you?

* - Don't you believe my name was Helen? Mrs Bentley asked.
“But I didn’t know that old women have a name.

* “What should it be, this Happiness Machine? Maybe it should fit in your pocket? Or should she carry you in her pocket herself? "

* Now the little things seem boring to you, but maybe you just don't know their prices yet, don't know how to find taste in them?

* “Adults and children are two different peoples, which is why they always fight among themselves. Look, they are not at all like us. Look, we are not at all like them. Different peoples - "and they will not understand each other."