“For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved in a tornado.”
"My Confession", pp. 76–77
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
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Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Her "Constant Reader" book review of The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne, in The New Yorker (20 October 1928) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1928/10/20/reading-and-writing-27
"Contributory Negligence", from Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (1985)
“Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?”
Source: Dark Flame
Notes And Comments, p. 189
Dark Age Ahead (2004)
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28, Phillip Marlowe watching Mona "Silver-Wig" Mars
“Just like a photograph,
I pick you up.
Just like a station on the radio,
I pick you up.”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)