`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` But that was war '', I said.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I felt certain it was self-appointed.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

But to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for human beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??

However, at eighty-five, he had still been busy writing articles, reviewing and speaking, and I had never before known an Englishman who had visited and lectured in three quarters of the United States.

-- I concur most heartily with today's letter on the futility of writing to Sen. Dirksen and Sen. Douglas.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

Ever since I was a child, I have always had a yen to try my hand at writing.

A Yank writing from Vicksburg, May 28, 1863, stated: `` not less than 50 balls have passed over me since I commenced writing.

Another Reb writing under similar circumstances before Atlanta reported: `` the Yankees keep shooting so I am afraid they will knock over my ink, so I will close ''.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

He concluded that " the only excuse which I have yet discovered for writing anything is that I want to write it ; and I should be as proud to be delivered of a Telephone Directory con amore as I should be ashamed to create a Blank Verse Tragedy at the bidding of others.

In An Autobiography Christie admits, " I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp ".

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.

He refused it because he did not agree with their beliefs, writing, " I shall have nothing to do with them.

In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?

I played on it my secret songs, unexplained, passionate and peaceful ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

After I would finish playing the songs, he'd just go away without a comment.

Grant participated in Lifetime's 1st Annual " Girls & Guitars " benefit, singing numerous songs, including a duet with Melissa Etheridge on " You Can Sleep While I Drive ".

Sondheim said: " As for the three songs ... going together well, I might as well confess.

What I didn't want to do is the quodlibet method ... wouldn't it be nice to have three songs you don't think are going to go together, and they do go together ...

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

They performed two new songs, ' I Didn't See It Coming ' and ' I'm Not Living In The Real World '.

Uncharacteristically, Jefferson's first two recordings from this session were gospel songs (" I Want to be like Jesus in my Heart " and " All I Want is that Pure Religion "), released under the name Deacon L. J. Bates.

In 1927, Jefferson recorded another of his now classic songs, the haunting " See That My Grave Is Kept Clean " ( once again using the pseudonym Deacon L. J. Bates ) along with two other uncharacteristically spiritual songs, " He Arose from the Dead " and " Where Shall I Be.

" I did two songs and he got mad ," Bo Diddley later recalled.

I have my style ... and, you know what's funny, is most of the songs Pretty on the Inside are complete Bauhaus rip-offs.

* Collection I, an album compiled of early songs from The Misfits

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

Also included were two songs " sung " by the character Jimmy Thudpucker ( actually actor / singer / songwriter / producer James Allen " Jimmy " Brewer ), entitled “ Stop in the Middle ” and " I Do Believe ", also part of the " Special ".

She has composed over 3, 000 songs, the best known of which include " I Will Always Love You " ( a two-time U. S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston ), " Jolene ", " Coat of Many Colors ", " 9 to 5 ", and " My Tennessee Mountain Home ".

It features mostly new material, plus re-recordings of four very obscure Devo songs: " I Need A Chick " and " I Been Refused " ( from Hardcore Devo: Volume Two ), " Find Out " ( which appeared on the single and EP of " Peek-A-Boo " in 1982 ), and " Beehive " ( which was recorded by the band in 1974, at which point it was apparently abandoned with the exception of one appearance at a special show in 2001 ).

It was a beginning that eventually led to Elvis Presley recording a dozen of her songs, including " I Got Lucky " and " Spinout ".

The piece has enjoyed a number of major revivals, and several of its songs have become standards, including " Broadway Baby ", " I'm Still Here ", " Too Many Mornings ", " Could I Leave You?

Throughout his career he introduced a number of memorable songs in films, including " Hooray for Captain Spaulding " and " Hello, I Must Be Going ", in Animal Crackers, " Whatever It Is, I'm Against It ", " Everyone Says I Love You " and " Lydia the Tattooed Lady ".