Author of quotes: Irwin Shaw. Page 3

Do you like children?
- As all people. There are children whom I would love to have bricked up in the wall.

If you love someone so much that you want to hide. In self-defense.

Family is also a subject for reflection. It's love and destruction. Not always. But quite often. According to Freud, is the stage on which played out a Greek tragedy: incest, patricide and other pleasures. It is terrible even to imagine that was a family life the good doctor from Vienna.

"What's wrong with me? bitterly he reflected, passing by antique shops, cheese shops and newsstands. - Where I got this confidence that I can take care of everyone? Strongly about all. I like the stupid hound dog races. As soon as I feel the responsibility is mine, mine, any man, - I begin to chase her like a dog chasing a mechanical rabbit, even if it knows in advance that he could not catch him. What disease I had contracted in his youth? With vanity? Vanity? Fear not like the others? Is that instead of religion? Good that I didn't have to participate in the war: would have killed me on the first day of its own soldiers have been shot for what prevented them to retreat or volunteered to go for ammunition for the ambushed guns. The following year, punished it, it will be necessary to learn to send everyone away."

Weasel excludes neither condemnation nor even contempt.

Love is the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse.

Each person has a mask behind which he hides.

Everything has its price, which, incidentally, is not always identical values.

When you're young, without money somehow easier to manage. But the need to constantly think about money throughout life can lead a person into a state bordering on hysteria.

Any new opportunity is a double - edged sword. Fate can turn to face you, and might not.

Love should be romantic. Otherwise it is better to go to the gym.

He only lived in the world to learn one simple truth: the woman, in whatever friendship you had not been, we cannot say that it does not look very good.

When you drink the wine of love, something that should be left in the glass.

New York is well suited for a person who prefers solitude. The most convenient in this sense the city where no effort will feel lonely and useless.